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It’s a December tradition on Mozart’s Attic, and we’ll have our annual performance of George Frederic Handel’s Messiah, complete, this Sunday. Justin Doyle conducts the Berlin Academy for Old Music with soloists and chorus in a newly-released CD of everyone’s favorite oratorio.

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It was 1783 and Mozart was living in Vienna. He planned a visit with his new wife, back home to Salzburg, where it must have seemed that everyone was mad at him.

Franz Joseph Haydn wrote a pair of oratorios that were partially inspired by the oratorios of G.F. Handel, and we’ll hear the first of the two, The Creation this Sunday in a performance on period instruments.

Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Johannes Brahms may have anticipated the concept of a professional network with mutual encouragement and career assistance in a circle that would come to include Antonin Dvorak. We’ll look at some of the music of this group this Sunday night.

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The International Maritime Bureau says there has been a 40 percent drop in piracy worldwide since 2011, and that much of the drop was due to fewer attacks off the Somali coast.

A woman who lived in one of the buildings said she stayed with her parents the night before the collapse because many of the doors in her building wouldn't close. "It could have been me," she said.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 on January 27th, and we will observe the occasion this Sunday with lots of music from this most remarkable of child prodigies, musicians, and composers in all of music, who — in a short life — produced a body of work that has delighted listeners for nearly 265 years now.