The Crosssgates Mall food court during a 2010 event when a flash mob performed the "Hallelujah" Chorus from Handel's "Messiah." (Paul Buckowski/Times Union) A dose of the unexpected is just what ...

With Easter come some staples: Peeps, egg hunts and, for churchgoers, George Frideric Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It's the five-minute piece often sung at the end of the service on Easter.

You know, the one with the famous “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” chorus. Even at the ripe old age of 269, the stirring “Hallelujah Chorus” retains a powerful power to draw people together.

The "Hallelujah Chorus," from George Frideric Handel's Messiah, is such an iconic piece of music — and is so ingrained as a Christmas tradition — that it's easy to take its exuberance and its ...

On Christmas Eve, we felt a frisson as the choir rose in the sanctuary’s loft, belting out George Frideric Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” a centerpiece of their Advent repertoire.

In it, she tells us that "all I've ever learned from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you" and closes by announcing, as if any doubt were now needed, that the chorus is "a cold and a broken ...