It begins with the violins — orderly and baroque. The choir rises. The audience rises. And before you know it, the concert hall, church, rec center or school auditorium fills with the triumphant sound ...

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of the most-covered songs in the world, but it took a few different people to make it that way. Do you remember the first time you heard “Hallelujah?” Was it in ...

If Leonard Cohen, who passed away Thursday at age 82, had only released one song in his lifetime, “Hallelujah,” his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would still be very deserved. “Hallelujah” ...

Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part focuses on ...

Sunlight streamed through the window as the Hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah filled our little kitchen nook. The children gathered around my husband as held up the word “Alleluia” scrawled out on ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, as we mentioned earlier, Western Christians are celebrating Holy Week and Easter, their most sacred time of the year. In the many special services and observances that take ...

It begins with the violins — orderly and baroque. The choir rises. The audience rises. And before you know it, the concert hall, church, rec center or school auditorium fills with the triumphant sound ...

Grant Gershon conducts the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Rachmaninoff's "All Night Vigil," in which Hallelujah takes on an intimate, mystical quality. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) It ...