www.operaphila.org — On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation’s “Random Acts of Culture” at Macy’s in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ – the world’s largest pipe organ – the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community infiltrated the store as shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” at 12 noon, to the delight of surprised shoppers. This event is one of 1000 “Random Acts of Culture” to be funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation over the next three years. The initiative transports the classical arts out of the concert halls and opera houses and into our communities to enrich our everyday lives. To learn more about this program and view more events, visit http The Opera Company thanks Macy’s and the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ (www.wanamakerorgan.com) for their partnership, as well as Organ Music Director Peter Conte and Fred Haas, accompanists; OCP Chorus Master Elizabeth Braden, conductor; and Sound Engineer James R. Stemke. For a complete list of participating choirs and more information, visit http This event was planned to coincide with the first day of National Opera Week. For clues about upcoming Random Acts of Culture, find us on Facebook www.operaphila.org or follow us on Twitter www.operaphila.org
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What a pleasure to hear such? lovely music.
That extended Plagal? cadence at the end is one of the most heavenly things ive ever heard … I think the choir of God themselves stopped singing just to hear this
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Love? this
Great!?
That gave me several? chills the last minute. O.O
Aside from a really awsome Random Act of Culture, I love spotting a detail like the? woofy guy at 0:50– I’ve met him! (Obviously he’s distinctive enough you’d remember him too, and a really cool man personally, too!)
Wonderful !!!!?
If there is anything that unites the? world, it is beautiful music like this.
Love it…one way to evangelize. Glory to the highest, our Lord creator of Heaven and earth. Always do that to all American? mall please!!! God? Bless You!!
If it is, I better? kill somebody fast.
Tt clearly states in Bible that flashmobs are from? Satan. Did you miss this passage as you have been capable of missing any?
Art, on the other hand, does not try only to entertain us. It tries to teach us and stretch us; it can lift? our spirits and even make us better. “You don’t outgrow art. The same work can mean something different at each stage of your life.”¹ It’s not that the work of art changes—we change. In fact,it’s the art that changes us… Like anything worthwhile, art can be challenging. But it is also enriching and inspiring, rewarding those who dig deep for its meaning.
Dana Gioia, a commencement speaker at Stanford University, expressed? his concern about a culture that, little by little, “trades off the challenging pleasures of art for the easy comforts of entertainment.”There’s little doubt that entertainment can be worthwhile, fun, an exciting. But when it’s over, entertainment very often leaves us no better than it found us. As Gioia explains, it “exploits and manipulates who we are rather challenges us with a vision of who we might become.”
I wonder why it is the best of our art is now found on youtube. This should be broadcast on television like classical concerts were back in the day and on Blu-ray DVD with Dolby TrueHD sound.Fortunately,for those of us who? are looking for art,there is still some available,but see my next post for more on that.
I prefer Messiah accompanied by an orchestra. But I’d forgotten how beautiful it is accompanied by an organ. The oratorical society of the college from which I graduated performed Messiah each Christmastime using organ accompaniment.
And I would respectfully disagree that this is an act of? culture. The Bible speaks of even inanimate objects praising the Lord. Whether the participants realized it or not, they were praising God. He certainly deserves praise. Good job.
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Go to wannamakerorgan(dot)com. I think they have some pics there.?
thanks for the info…and by the way, I’m a great-grandmother,? not a dude, so when I mention I googled to find out, you will understand what a chore that was. Couldn’t see any pipes in the video, but couldn’t believe that sound was electronic. Would love to hear it “in person”….
Thanks for the info….I “googled” the Wannamaker, because I just couldn’t see any? pipes but could not believe that sound was electronic….bet it was a joy to hear, in person…..although not, perhaps, while trying to work….
Here’s the true heartland of America, grass? roots not Astroturf!
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