Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus at Macys in Philadelphia
What a great way to start my day! Thank you, Momcat, for this wonderful new cultural random happening, this time at a large Macy’s in Philadelphia. Of course, this music is one I put on if I am feeling down; it lifts me right back up. 
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Oh that was amazing!
I loved it
I love Christmas music! It’s on in my car and at home since last week lol I started early this year
Why can’t that happen at Post Oak Mall in College Station? Let me count the ways………
LLOOLL, Yousef, I discipline myself not to listen to Christmas music before October 15th! After that, It’s all Christmas until Epiphany (6 January)
What are your favorites? Do you have a favorite style? I love some of the very old music – which came back to Europe from the Holy Lands in the crusades, along with such niceties as bathing, and arches and domed architecture.
Grammy, Yes! I feel the same way! When will this happen in Pensacola??
Well my favorites are by nat cole king and Mariah carey. I love the jazzy eerie feel I get from king’s songs and I love the vocals and reverence on Mariah’s. Those two’s songs transcend religion and language barriers
I don’t like current sounding songs.. Christmas songs shouldn’t sound current and fady!
How about recommending some of your favorites? By name and not style so I can look them up
Nat king cole*
One of my all time favorites is something I found – not expensive – years ago, Welcome Christmas! by Philip Brunelle. You can still find it used, on Amazon:
I love the arrangements of John Rutter, light, ethereal, the voices weaving lightly back and forth:
And just about anything by the King’s College Cambrige:
http://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=music&field-artist=King%27s%20College%20Choir
I also like instrumentals by Mannheim Steamroller and by Wyndham Hill, for times when I want music but don’t want to be distracted by the words.
If you like the great chorus from above, you might want to listen to the entire Messiah, by Handel – is is operatic, and lyrical, and you will find yourself humming pieces from it all day long. It uses the words from the prophet Isaiah.
Spoooooooky. I was listening to it on the radio (UK’s classic FM) a few minutes ago… Opened Google reader and there was your post right on top
Beautiful.
Would you believe our BSF teaching leader began her lecture yesterday referencing this event? I was thrilled to know what she was talking about.
Bu Yousef – (sounds of twilight zone) There are no coincidences.
The notes, too, Momcat.
Actually, my very favorite parts of The Messiah are not the Halleluja chorus, but the “for unto us a child is given . . . and his name shall be called WONDERFUL! COUNSELOR!