Posted on 12/20/2010 4:01:48 PM PST by EBH
CLEVELAND, Ohio - An unexpected flash mob broke out into song at the West Side Market on Saturday.
Videos of the event are starting to generate some buzz on Youtube, with one clip being viewed over 10k times.
The staged event was organized by the West Shore Chorale.
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Big Old Ohio Ping!!!
Merry Christmas Ohio!
Check out this rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus posted a little over a month ago now with nearly 24,000,000 views:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
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I love these, this is the third one I’ve seen.
I’ve seen that one..
I believe it started this....
I am just loving them all...
Just cool...
It’s still Christmas somewhere. :-)
Loving these Hallelujah flash mobs!
That one wasn’t very good.
They piped in the vocals and it looks like there are more singers than shoppers. One girl is even waving to the camera and two others are jumping up and down when the music first starts. AND they had music, what’s that about?
The fun of it is seeing the faces of those who don’t belong. Otherwise it’s just a sing-a-long.
Geez, but it brought back memories of buying real Peanut Butter down at the Market before heading over to the Hessler street fair!
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It is Christmas week and this is the Good News...
HAHA, this is one way around the PC and ACLU crowd...lol I think it’s better then a Christmas tree.
For some reason, this song is more beautiful when it is performed in this way then when it is performed in a church.
Exactly right. The other thing is that it's almost as if God is saying "OK, if you won't come to me, I'll come to you"
Guess I’ll be the Scrooge of the thread. I thought the first few were nice, and even mailed them around. But I’ve had my fill.
There was a group of women in a Bible study on the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three, which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This verse puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out about the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study.
That week this woman called up a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest in silver beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silversmith; he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot - then she thought again about the verse, that he sits as a refiner and purifier of silver She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.
The man answered "yes", he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left even a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"
He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy. When I see my image in it."
Yea, I saw that one too. I think it’s the best one.
“For some reason, this song is more beautiful when it is performed in this way then when it is performed in a church.”
I agree. It’s always beautiful, but there’s something special about it done this way.
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