Hallelujah in the Department Store

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Written By Edward Wolfe

In a wonderful, memorable "random act of culture," the Opera Company of Philadelphia and over 650 area choristers met at Macy's Center in Philadelphia in 2010 and performed "Hallelujah" from Handel's Messiah for the sheer beauty of it.  The magnificent pipe organ apparently is built into the store.  The public's reaction is amazing.  6 minutes. 

My family and I participated in a similar event at Scottsdale's Fashion Square a few years ago.  Following the performance the six of us then performed the piece again near the north entrance to a small but admiring crowd who gathered to hear us. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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