A very, very good chance you have heard Georg Friedrich Händel's work if you've gone to a movie in the past twenty years. Händel was born on this date--Februrary 23rd--1685. Never a bad idea to revisit one of his more well-known works--Hallelujah chorus from Messiah, Water Music, Music for Fireworks.
Or try a new piece like "Let the Bright Seraphim" from the Samson oratorio. (Performed in the link below by soprano Kathleen Battle and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.)
Let the bright Seraphim in burning row,
Their loud uplifted Angel-trumpets blow:
Let the Cherubic host, in tuneful choirs,
Touch their immortal harps with golden wires.
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