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Werner Herzog, Handel's Messiah, Israeli Settlements in the West Bank

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Werner Herzog, Handel's Messiah, Israeli Settlements in the West Bank

CBS Sunday Morning / Jane Pauley

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Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, David Pogue explores the creation of Handel’s “Messiah.” Also: Ben Mankiewicz sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog; and Seth Doane examines the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

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I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday Morning. Tis the season for music, Christmas music. Most of the songs many of us know by heart, White Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town. The list of familiar and beloved tunes goes on and on. But there is perhaps no work of classical music more tied to the Christmas holiday than Handel's Messiah.

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That's oracle.com slash CBS. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! The heavenly voices of the Young People's Chorus of New York City, something of a holiday tradition here at Sunday morning.

They're helping David Pogue celebrate perhaps the most enduring work of classical music you're likely to hear this and every Christmas season. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Alleluia! It's probably the most heard piece of classical music on earth. And the most sung and the most recorded. It has been in near continuous performance from 1742 when it premiered all the way up to the present.

It's absolutely everywhere and you can't say that about really any other piece of serious music. It's Handel's Messiah by German British opera composer George Friedrich Handel. Charles King's new book gives us the backstory of Messiah and its Hallelujah Chorus. The Hallelujah Chorus comes about two-thirds of the way through Messiah. It's not the finale? It's not the finale.

People stand up and then people start getting ready to leave grabbing their keys and their parking validation and then it's like nope sit down there's a third more of this thing left to go. Messiah wasn't actually Handel's idea. The words came from a friend named Charles Jennings.

We now call it Handel's Messiah but we should really call it Handel's and Jennings' Messiah. All right so who was this Jennings guy? So Charles Jennings was a wealthy landowner but he also suffered from this kind of encasing sense of doom and despair.

We might now call it chronic depression or even bipolar disorder. He starts to pull down books from the shelves and he starts to copy down bits of scripture. He was also working out I think a kind of philosophy of living. I never fail to doff my hat actually at Charles Jennings for putting that together. Conductor and writer Jane Glover has conducted Messiah over a hundred times. Most recently this month at Trinity Church in New York City. Messiah is in three parts. The first part is the Christmas story which is why everybody does it at Christmas. The second part is the crucifixion. But then also the resurrection. And then part three is about redemption. So there's a tremendous shape to this three-part oratorio. In the 1720s and 30s Handel's popular Italian style operas had made him a musical mega star but in his 50s his popularity was waning. So when he was invited to stage a series of concerts in Dublin he thinks this may be a way that he can kind of restart his career and he sits down with this text that he's received from Charles Jennings and decides to try to make some of it.
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