Harvarti, ham and Hallelujah

Shoppers at the historic West Side Market in Cleveland got more than rutabagas and ribs Dec 18. The West Shore Chorale and local choral friends, scattered among the customers, broke out into the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah." The same Random Act of Culture of the Hallelujah Chorus by the Opera Company of Philadelphia delighted shoppers at Philadelphia's Macy's Department Store a few weeks earlier, financed by the Knight Foundation.

Click on the headline to watch and hear the Cleveland "mob flash," as it also is called.