Join us to discuss Every Valley: The Desperate Times and Troubled Lives That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King.”Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras as well asby fans singing along to the lyrics on their cell phones…Contrary to popular belief, the Messiah was not the product of a lone genius scribblingfuriously on a musical staff. It came about because of a depressive political dissenter; an actress plagued by an abusive husband; an Atlantic sea captain and penniless philanthropist; an African Muslim man held captive in the American colonies; and Handel himself, once composer to kings but, at midlife, in ill health and straining to keep an audience’s attention.” — Provided by publisher.Copies of the book will be available at theCirculation Desk one month before the meeting date. Ebook copies are available through Boundless with your Frankfort library card.