{"id":137483,"date":"2018-12-21T21:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/hallelujah-3.html"},"modified":"2018-12-21T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:52:38","slug":"hallelujah-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/hallelujah-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s been many, many years since I made it to a Handel&#39;s <i>Messiah<\/i> sing-along, not least of which is because we have always traveled off to California for Christmas. But we&#39;re here this year, and I did some digging and found the Denver Interfaith Messiah Sing-Along over at Hope United Methodist in Greenwood Village tonight &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denverinterfaithmessiah.weebly.com\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/denverinterfaithmessiah.weebly.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and dragged the whole family along.<\/p>\n<p>It was a blast. Even the choruses I&#39;ve never sung and had to sight-read \/ listen-nearby for. Regardless of the religious sentiment, the music is beautiful, and belting some of those choruses out is an awesome experience.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, aside from one sing-along mumble decades ago, and listening to recordings, I haven&#39;t done a mostly sing-through of <i>Messiah<\/i> since college. Ditto Margie, who noted that her range had dropped a bit from her soprano days, and James had only ever sung the Hallelujah Chorus, and Jim hadn&#39;t sung it since <i>his<\/i> college days, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No matter. Great fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll be definitely aiming to do this next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6637675928304024129\/6637675927805262914'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--VKNloGk080\/XB3DFqL-fEI\/AAAAAAAGcgY\/UAzG9xP1_Iw2FPibnKBKm380dtqsPzGGwCJoC\/messiah.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/B8JfcaXoqBX'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s been many, many years since I made it to a Handel&#39;s Messiah sing-along, not least of which is because we have always traveled off to California for Christmas. But we&#39;re here this year, and I did some digging and found the Denver Interfaith Messiah Sing-Along over at Hope United Methodist in Greenwood Village tonight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/hallelujah-3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hallelujah!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137484,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/messiah.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24769,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/hallelujah-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":0},"title":"Hallelujah","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Dec-11 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Most people who only know Handel's Messiah from Christmas concerts have no idea that (a) they're only hearing 1\/3 - 1\/2 of the work, which (b) covers the whole story of Christ ... up to and concluding with prophetic bits from Revelation and Isaiah. I was disappointed we didn't get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/hallelujah.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":1},"title":"Hallelujah!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Nov-10 11:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Note to self: Really want to do a \"Messiah\" sing-along this year.. 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24272,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/tweets-from-2011-12-05.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":2},"title":"Tweets from 2011-12-05","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 9:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Cold, snowy, icy morning this morning. Working from home, I think. # Temp reported as about 5F outside. Staying inside seems the better idea. # On the bright side, it appears that my mobile's non-speaker-phone speaker does work. Not sure why it *hasn't* worked during recent calls. # Watching Katherine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38446,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/on-the-naming-of-baby-names.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":3},"title":"On the naming of (baby) names","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Aug-13 10:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Frankly, I think naming your baby \"Messiah\" is just goofy, esp. if you do it as this mother did, because \"She liked how the name Messiah sounded alongside the other two siblings and thought it was unique\"That said, it's not up to a judge to, unsolicited, decide that it has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/sing-then-o-muse.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":4},"title":"Sing, then, O Muse!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Apr-11 2:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For whatever reason, this was adopted as the official celebratory tune of such occasions in my family. This one's for you, love! Happy Anniversary! Even if I didn't steal a piano for you, I still love you madly.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Love &amp; Marriage&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Love &amp; Marriage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/love-and-marriage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/29\/sing-then-o-staff.html","url_meta":{"origin":137483,"position":5},"title":"Sing, Then, O Staff!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Aug-14 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"The idea of a corporate songbook seems silly today (when, if such a thing existed, it would be for purposes of satire), but this was an era of sing-alongs, top-down management, and mutual company\/employee loyalty. I don't know that it was necessarily a less cynical time, but the cynicism was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}