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Summary: Podcast host Elliott Forrest is joined by composer-conductor Joelle Wallach in a lively discussion of the operatic origins and secular traditions of Handel's Messiah, a perennial favorite that will be performed by the New York Philharmonic in five concerts conducted by Baroque specialist Bernard Labadie.