Opera Company of Philadelphia "Hallelujah!" Random Act of Culture

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

THIS WILL GIVE YOU GOOSEBUMPS

This is just awesome! This will truly bring tears to your eyes! Imagine you were shopping in the downtown Philadelphia Macy's this past Saturday (10/30/2010) afternoon and 650 voices broke out in the Hallelujah Chorus accompanied by the largest playable pipe organ in the world! Well, that happened. In the beginning of the video you will see the organ being played at noon which is a tradition each business day. Then the organ makes a dramatic switch and a "flash mob" from 20 plus Philadelphia area choral groups, scattered among shoppers, surprised all. The organ was designed for the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair and was played there by Charles Galloway. John Wanamaker purchased the 28,500 pipe organ in 1909 to be moved to his new dept. store in Philadelphia (now Macy's) where the store and organ have been landmarks ever since. In this era of terrorist bombings and overwhelming negative political ads, take pleasure that there are still good people who can bring joy for no compensation other than a "Random Act of Culture.