Countless indignities have been visited upon the Hallelujah Chorus. Currently it is being used in a suggestive television commercial for an on-line dating service, but nothing can diminish its glory. It is, of course, the best known section of Handel’s Messiah which moved King George II to stand, possibly unintentionally, instituting a custom which lasted for more than two centuries.
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