{"id":22,"date":"2011-03-14T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/03\/high-school-kids-jump-into-the-hallelujah-chorus-fun.html"},"modified":"2011-03-14T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T14:57:04","slug":"high-school-kids-jump-into-the-hallelujah-chorus-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/03\/high-school-kids-jump-into-the-hallelujah-chorus-fun.html","title":{"rendered":"High school kids jump into the Hallelujah Chorus fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently an opera company in Philadelphia&nbsp;brought 600 friends together for a spontaneous, unannounced performance of Handel&#8217;s &#8220;Hallelujah Chorus&#8221; to a downtown department store. <\/p>\n<p>Then a&nbsp;bunch of college kids in Windsor, Canada, had fun at a shopping mall&#8217;s food court.<\/p>\n<p>And it became an international phenomenon. We have had reports of unannounced Hallelujah Chorus performances in Scotland, Ohio, Kansas City, New England and the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>In the same spirit, here is a great skit pulled off by bunch of high school kids &#8212; portraying an obscure order of silent monks performing the classic &#8230; without breaking their vows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZCFCeJTEzNU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently an opera company in Philadelphia&nbsp;brought 600 friends together for a spontaneous, unannounced performance of Handel&#8217;s &#8220;Hallelujah Chorus&#8221; to a downtown department store. Then a&nbsp;bunch of college kids in Windsor, Canada, had fun at a shopping mall&#8217;s food court. And it became an international phenomenon. 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