Word: hallelujah
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...season. This is the performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something of the peace the fresh purpose, the idealism which is Christmas. What is music that it can distill and epitomize thoughts which almost...
...physicians it should be remembered that they spend their time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree...
...Glory Hallelujah. Perhaps too much was expected of this strange tragedy. Word floated around that an extraordinary sensation was in store for the weary playgoers; wise folk behind the scenes averred that a great play had been written. The initial assembly expected to whoop with joy. Therefore when the play trailed away after a burning first act, they were desolate. Glory Hallelujah is a great deal better than most, but it commits the serious sin of going back on its promise...
...Handel's Hallelujah Chorus burst the air, the Grand Union Cambridge flag was unfurled from the flagstaff of Independence Hall?the same flag General Washington hoisted for the Colonial Army on Jan. 2, 1776?21 bombs burst in air, a company of Colonial troops stood at attention, 100,000 people crammed Independence Square and Chestnut Street...
Saturday--Widor, Andante; Handel, Hallelujah Chorus...