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Raise your voice in this celebration of community, history, and the power of collective song.
The Foundling Museum and Choir of the Earth invite you to be part of something special: a joyful, participatory choral event celebrating Handel’s enduring legacy and the extraordinary power of collective music-making.
This special event brings together emerging musicians, music students, and members of the public for an unforgettable musical experience rooted in the Foundling Hospital’s historic relationship with music, community, and shared purpose.
What to Expect
Before the event
Your free ticket includes access to Choir of the Earth’s line-by-line teaching videos for each voice part, led by your conductor for the day, Ben England, plus voice-part-louder and full-choir rehearsal tracks recorded by professional choral singers.
You will be invited to attend a free online revision/preparation session on YouTube on Tuesday 17 March 2026 at 18:30 GMT. This will be recorded and available later for those who can’t make it live.
Your ticket also includes a free digital score for the Hallelujah chorus - please make sure you have a way of bringing this with you on the day, e.g. digitally on a fully charged tablet/mobile device, or by printing a copy. No printed scores will be available at the event.
On the day
Dress appropriately for the weather, bring a bottle of water and your score, and make your way to the Foundling Museum / Brunswick Square.
The approximate timings for the day - all local time (GMT) - are:
12:00 Make your way to Brunswick Square - just across the road from the Foundling Museum - and meet the other singers who are joining us for our open-air flashmob, plus your conductor for the event, Ben England!
12:15 We will warm up our voices, then perform a flashmob-style performance of Handel’s iconic Hallelujah chorus outside the Museum - an uplifting moment of shared joy, open to the public. We will sing Hallelujah at least twice!
After the event
Why not visit the Foundling Museum’s exhibition all about this epic piece: A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music?
Cost and Booking
It is FREE to take part in this fantastic flashmob event!
More information about how to book, participate and access our teaching/revision resources is coming soon!
About the Foundling Museum
The Foundling Museum is the only cultural institution in the UK to celebrate people who have been in care, and all those who care for them. It is a contemporary museum with unique collections of art, music, writing and emotive objects that stretch back to the 18th century, and its mission is to inspire change through the power of the arts.
The Museum begins with the story of the Foundling Hospital: the UK’s first children’s charity and public art gallery, supported by leading 18th-century artists and musicians, including George Frideric Handel.
Handel originally composed Hallelujah as part of his famous Messiah oratorio, but later incorporated the piece into an anthem he created specially for the Foundling Hospital, which premiered in 1749 to help raise money for the charitable institution - especially fitting as we aim now to fundraise for the Foundling Museum through this special Hallelujah event!