Members of a flash mob perform the Hallelujah Chorus in the food court at Crossgates Mall in Guilderland on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Over 75 singers from choirs around the region took part in the event.

With Easter come some staples: Peeps, egg hunts and, for churchgoers, George Frideric Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It's the five-minute piece often sung at the end of the service on Easter. The ...

Hallelujah!” chorus. The oratorio is nearly as universal as death and taxes, and it seems everyone has an interpretation of it: from handbells to Hong Kong, from your uncle to a dance club DJ.

The "Hallelujah Chorus," from George Frideric Handel 's Messiah, is such an iconic piece of music — and is so ingrained as a Christmas tradition — that it's easy to take its exuberance and its ...