Robert Ripley said, "Believe it or not." He wasn't talking about the Messiah, at least not that I know of. Whether you are a believer, or not, Handel's Messiah still sweeps us before it:
CHORUSYou can listen to the entire Messiah, about an hour and a half, in an NPR program from the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.
Click on this link (and be prepared for some editorial comment and an advertisement or two from National Public Radio) as you celebrate this day with stirring music, composed by George Frideric Handel in 1742.
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