{"id":23939,"date":"2016-03-13T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23939"},"modified":"2016-03-13T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:00:56","slug":"worlds-largest-virtual-hallelujah-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/worlds-largest-virtual-hallelujah-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tell me you&#8217;ve never done this: when the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel&#8217;s <em>Messiah<\/em> comes on you <em>have<\/em> to sing along. You might even whip out your best opera. And you&#8217;ve certainly done it in the shower. <\/p>\n<p>I can recall this being a habit I picked up while quite young. In fact, it got &#8220;worse&#8221; after high school when I had learned to sing in parts &#8212; belting out the high tenor until my eyeballs nearly fell out. <\/p>\n<p>The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has taken that and made it easy for closet Hallelujah singers to join the choir with a recent release of the World&#8217;s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah chorus. Thousands of people responded. See if you can recognize anyone you know:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akb0kD7EHIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though many people today associate <a href=\"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/handels-messiah\/\"><strong>Handel&#8217;s <em>Messiah<\/em><\/strong><\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> it was actually written for Easter. In fact, the MoTab makes it a free concert every Easter and it is quite the event to attend. This fun video project is just one in a series of outreach efforts by the MoTab to celebrate sacred music and holidays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tell me you&#8217;ve never done this: when the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel&#8217;s Messiah comes on you have to sing along. You might even whip out your best opera. And you&#8217;ve certainly done it in the shower. I can recall this being a habit I picked up while quite young. In fact, it got &#8220;worse&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[318,528,132],"class_list":["post-23939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","tag-hallelujah","tag-handel-messiah","tag-mormon-tabernacle-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}