How do listeners today reconcile the joy of Handel's "Messiah" with the composer's involvement with the Royal African Company and the transatlantic slave trade? Musicians and scholars examine how " and why " audiences may or may not separate the sanctity of art from the morality of its creator. The panelists are Handel scholar and Professor Emeritus at MIT Ellen Harris; ethnomusicologist and Juilliard professor Fred…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:36PM on January 25, 2022