| 单词 | hymn |
| 例句 | When the hymn ended, she held Turner’s hand and walked behind her husband’s casket as the deacons carried it out of the church. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It turned out I had signed up for a weekend of prayer and singing hymns about Jesus. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the hymn Digory felt someone plucking at his elbow and from a general smell of brandy and cigars and good clothes he decided that it must be Uncle Andrew. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Turner played hymn after hymn, repeating a few verses when she hummed to the chorus, taking care to avoid the ones that suggested the pleasures of leaving this weary world. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She found in the outer court a beautiful lad in priestly attire intent on purifying the sacred place with water from a golden vessel, singing as he worked a hymn of praise to the god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finished Easy Pieces, I played Für Elise, then a few things from the lesson book, and that was all I had, except hymns. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Everyone but me stood to the opening of the hymn. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Singing hymns, reciting jump rope songs, anything to keep her mind off the fear and awfulness of that night. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z One of them sings hymns in a high cracked tenor before he begins to gurgle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I justified this by telling myself that, if I wrote a really good hymn, Granny might forgive me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “America’s finest coming in the nick of time,” Ben shouted as his father hummed the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he would serenade the oysters of Chesapeake Bay with the hymns the brothers Wesley had written to bring sinners to repentance and praise. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Virgin martyrs always died singing hymns and giving praise not minding one bit if lions tore big chunks from their sides and gobbled them on the spot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then, breviary in hand, one of the female teachers led us in singing hymns and reciting psalms. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” she said, “those hymns about eternal lakes of fire; are always so jaunty, aren’t they? Play another.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z —All newcomers should memorize, as soon as possible, several special hymns, the Lord’s prayer and several passages from the Bible, to be sung and recited during morning assembly and at dismissal in the afternoon. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of the box of mildewed hymn books was a small leather suitcase, a miniature twin to Silas’s own. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I tried a hymn, but halfway through it I had to stop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Otis,” he said, “do you know any hymns?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z As she moved back and forth she sang, a hymn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ladies from church sometimes came over to practice hymns, belting their piety through our walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ben went to the record player he had brought down from his parents’ room, and put on the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Simon’s choice of hymn was in fact rather apt. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Most traditional Protestant hymns and most "barbershop quartet" music is in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I’d heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If Washington’s retirement hymn featured the “vine and fig tree,” Jefferson’s idolized “my family, my farm, and my books.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Actually, it wasn’t “Auld Lang Syne” they’d sung, the night the Titanic went down, but hymns. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Outside, in the foreshortened market-place under the window, they seemed to be singing a hymn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the holy hymn taken from the bone and sinew of the family’s life together, the anthem of both their discontent and strange belabored love for their way of life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As they rode toward the smoke, the sunsets inspired Jasper to share a suite of hymns whose central theme was the wrath of God and the mortifications awaiting the wicked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Where are the heroes whose battle cries are my hymns? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The next morning I was awakened by the chanting of morning hymns coming over loudspeakers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The instant the hymn ended, the choir coach began to give her lengthy opinion of people who can’t keep their feet still and their lips sealed tight during the minister’s sermon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It was an old hymn they used to sing all the time in the church where I grew up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’m reminded of one of the classic hymns we used to sing at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: “It Is Well with My Soul.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lincoln was sixth on the bill—making “Dedicatory Remarks” after music from Birgfield’s Band and the Marine Band, a prayer, a hymn, and the main speaker. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Oxyrhynchus hymn, written in Ancient Greek, dates from the late third century, making it nearly two thousand years old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of selfhypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On Sunday nights you could see red, blue, and green stained-glass light in the churches and hear the voices singing the numbered hymns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are hymns always so slow?” she asked after the third one. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A special hymn was written for the occasion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There is Benediction and hymn singing in English, Irish and Latin and best of all the big powerful sermon Redemptorist priests are famous for. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z After I finished speaking, the group sang a hymn to end the session. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This is what hymns were to sound like until around the midtwentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Apparently,” he said, “apparently our brethren in the Northland are not content merely with the Supreme Court’s activities. They are now trying to change our hymns on us.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After a few words—mainly a repetition of what the principal said —from several of the senior teachers, a hymn was sung and a prayer said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And so he set into “Shall We Gather at the River?” as the most peaceful hymn he knew, even if it was about the afterlife. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Just him and her, Mama, in the parlor. He prayed and preached a sermon and they sang hymns and all.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then the chief warden, Little Razor, went from cell to cell, announcing the new regulations, no more hymn singing, no more crucifixes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them spend the afternoon at the piano, with Zach teaching Didu a few old hymns that he learned as a kid. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They crowded into her darkened room, throwing open the windows, singing hymns and praying over the grieving woman-child, exorcising the demon of grief and calling Ann back to the world in Jesus’ name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon was alive with the racket of a thousand different songbirds calling to us from the grove, surrounding us with their chants, their hymns, their lullabies. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The choir started with an old hymn—“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When the hymn was over, the waiters brought coffee and Bull rapped with his gavel once again and announced, “The smoking lamp is lighted.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked, at least, that I knew the people in the pews around us, and that I knew when to stand and sit, how most of the hymns went. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The hymn books were in two piles on a chair, with some of the spines and backs hanging off. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I sang against him my most perfect backward-forward hymns, because I have no other powers of my own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 6.18: The same hymn in C is more easily singable by a congregation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Lift Him Up”—one of my very favorite hymns that we always sang at Granddaddy’s church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I leaned against her side as the priest announced the next hymn. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A wave of longing swept over me; I hadn’t heard that hymn since Charlie’s last Sunday at church. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The spirits’ song had become laughter, or some joyful hymn, and the shadows swooped and dove along beside her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ten-hup,” he bellowed to his children as the first cataclysmic strains of the Marine Corps hymn reverberated through the upstairs rooms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As I tried to fall asleep, I could hear Grandma rocking back and forth in her chair, singing hymns that must have given her the strength to stay alert all night. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We sang a hymn and ended the services holding hands and saying the Twenty-third Psalm. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You always play that last hymn so loud,” said Mrs. Cobb. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A woman full of fun and life, she sat in the back pews of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church congregation on Sunday mornings and whistled the hymns while everybody else sang them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That done, the meeting opened with prayers and hymn singing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Off to the east was a football game, and from the same direction came the feeble sound of a hymn being sung in unison, then fading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For many people, this cadence will be familiar as the "Amen" chords at the end of many traditional hymns. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Our mothers and fathers stood in the dark hall and joined the hymn of encouragement. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, playing the hymns had made me feel sad, as if I were homesick even though I was at home. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After a prayer and a hymn, the kids had to go to their Sunday school classes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z We always sang hymns at the end of services, and I think Father Hughes visited us so frequently just to hear us sing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no dirge, no incense, no requiem, although hymns were sung in the small church. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He said it was a hymn, then ran from the living room and came back carrying a soft blue Bible with large gold lettering across its front. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The same hymns were played, the same sermon given, the same announcements made. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he settled down into hymns that liked a trembling vibrato. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Through the prayers, hymns, and stories that neighbors stood up to tell, Peach moaned every time the word death was used. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After that, they fell quiet and gazed up into the boundless starlit expanse while the owls and crickets sang their night hymns all around them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The priest gave him a piece of paper with the words to a hymn on it and asked him to sing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She rarely deviates from her original pattern, her hymn of particulars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z People fanned themselves with programs in the July heat while the organist plodded out hymns. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Then we sang the hymn that goes All God’s gifts around us are sent from heaven above, so thank the Lord, thank the Lord, for a-a-all his love. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Though Grandma Caye was now in heaven with God, singing that hymn always made us feel closer to her, as if she was right there, still holding us in her heart. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Herbert said: “He said we might as well be singing ‘Stick your snout under the spout where the Gospel comes out’ as most of the hymns we sing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He would make him stand up and sing a Dominican island song, or a hymn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’d think a minister’s son would know how to play a hymn with reverence. Wouldn’t you think so, girl?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At last, when the eulogist finished eulogizing, the preacher finished preaching, and the organist finished playing heavenly hymns, the preacher asked if anyone would like to say a few words. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I led some of the boys in singing hymns, and I always took my turn at burying the dead. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But this Sunday in church we sang no “onward” hymns and needless to say, I didn’t listen to Dr. Car- hart’s sermon. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood by the door while she finished the hymn and ran through choruses of “Maple Leaf Rag,” “Georgia Blues,” and “Good Ole Summertime,” which she hummed, then played again, singing the words. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The souls whispered songs about their lives and deaths, a swirl of loves lost and remembrances, hymns and murder ballads. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the gym, Bull paid the director of the pep club band five dollars to play the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The hymn was familiar to me—we’d sung it at church, a chorus of mismatched voices raised in worship—but this was different. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Kempsey told us to turn to the hymn that goes, Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Or were there notes, music, lined on the pages, as in a hymn book? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was that the original hymn style became the purview of the shape note singing schools, mostly in the South, where they flourished for many years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z When the class took their seats at the conclusion of the patriotic hymn, Asher remained standing to make his public apology as was required. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I refused to say it the southern hymn way—“the sweet by-and-by.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z After that, Lizzie always sang the hymns she knew, and Turner cut down on the high churchy tunes to accommodate her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She ignored me, humming her hymn, “I’m on the Battlefield for My Lord.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sansa knew most of the hymns, and followed along on those she did not know as best she could. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mary Anne, you sweet little thing, would you wiggle up here and lead these gyrenes in your version of the hymn?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like spangled. Like that hymn—you remember: And the Hornèd moon at night, ’Mid her spangled sisters bright. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Middle-class pastoral is, therefore, a more difficult hymn. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I would sing a hymn in front of the congregation that Sunday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was a condensed church service that included songs and hymns as well as a sermon by Armstrong, often about the naturalness and practicality of the scriptures. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The hymn is written in the key of E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Meetings were opened and closed with prayer and the singing of freedom songs—often hymns and spirituals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He struck up at once a harvest thanksgiving hymn, all about crops being “safely gathered in.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she bursts into a full-fledged rendition of "Amazing Grace," one of the only hymns I recognize. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I can play hymns better than anything else, because I used to play them for our Sunday School singing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The bits of Sunday dresses that he saw did not fly; they hung in the air quietly, like the whole notes in the last measure of an Easter hymn. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He retrieved it sufficiently to say, “Southern hymns, Herbert? Southern hymns?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Turner figured that if there ever was a time for a hymn, this was it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Carrying torches and wearing black hooded robes, they circled the fire singing hymns to the dead between sips of whiskey. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I remembered as a child that they always sang this hymn at somber moments during church services, on Communion Sundays, and Good Friday. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He then called for yet another hymn, which was hummed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was very still, when the clear voice failed suddenly at the last line of Beth’s favorite hymn. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When the collection was taken up and the last hymn given to the praise of God, the evangelist asked that everyone in his presence rededicate his soul to God and his life’s work to Charity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to make her voice all low and quavery, but she just got to sound like old Pastor McClellan at Saint Andrew’s grumbling out a hymn. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He was lying on the crimson sofa, a Bible resting on his stomach, while Kami and Richard played hymns on the piano. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I opened the hymn book and played two of my favorites, “How Great Thou Art” and “In the Garden.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The condemned Delawares spent the night praying and singing hymns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I was a bit quiet at first, nervous, but I built up the volume as I hit the second verse of the hymn. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The spirits’ hymn grew louder and louder, erupted from inside her, but somewhere beneath it all she heard a voice singing softly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I took the Bible, pencil, paper, and a rhyming dictionary and tried to write verses for hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you ask me, I think the best thing we could do to pass the time would be to sing a hymn.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Lots of hymns, and the Catholic priest saying Hail Marys, and the first-class salon which had really looked a lot like this: dark wood, potted palms, rose silk lampshades with their swaying fringe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There was a hymn they sang in church that he liked. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Stella slipped into her own seat, next to the upright piano that Mrs. Grayson plinked out hymns and folk songs and ballads on. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “What? Didn’t think I knew all these hymns?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Each Sunday, after she had taken her seat, the minister would announce, “We will now be led in a hymn by Sister Henderson.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But whenever Miss Love came for a family dinner, Grandpa would ask her to play hymns, and we’d all sing, and nobody enjoyed it more than Granny. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And we did the same to the beautiful hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbert said, “He told us we ought to get rid of the Southern hymns and learn some other ones. I don’t like it—ones he thought were pretty don’t even have tunes.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For centuries, ballads, and epics were all sung, as were Biblical chants and Vedic hymns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I had never heard the hymn, but I kept hoping it was one with a dozen or more verses. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z After several hymns the priest fell into a long prayer. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I invented snmyhymns, as I call them, my own perverse hymns that can be sung equally well forward or backward: Evil, all its sin is still alive! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Service starts and after a few announcements and some hymns, the collection plate is passed around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It pulled the hymn out of muddled confusion and lifted true praises to the Lord. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since I was singing that hymn before your father was born, it’s likely I would. Try something snappier.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But for Bull and Lillian, it was the hymn that made this night a holy night for all time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The other Marines, lifting their glasses, thundered, “The Corps!” and the band struck up the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of it opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was Sunday, Chester thought it would be nice to start with a hymn, so he chose to open his concert with “Rock of Ages.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew the hymn,- her mother had taught it to her once, a long time ago in Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The women sing Christian hymns as they walk, and some carry guitars, or they carry sacks of charcoal or salt balanced on their heads. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “See, she was singing her favorite hymn, ‘Were you there when they crucified my Lord?’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After a hymn and a prayer from the pastor, Shin strode to the front of the church and took command of the evening. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I find the rituals comforting—the tried-and-true hymns, sermons by the mild- mannered, slope-shouldered reverend that emphasize decency and good manners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord’s Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Beth went to the piano and played the father’s favorite hymn. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He went through the two other hymns he’d learned—“The Rosary” and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”—and then did the violin concerto. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the yard a woman's hoarse contralto intoned a hymn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The lovely hymn, the Tantum Ergo, sounded as smoke of incense rose like vine. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he passed the Methodist church, he heard the congregation singing a joyful hymn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z That evening, while Grandmother sat in my hospital room, rocking me back and forth as she hummed her favorite hymn, “On the Battlefield for My Lord,” Mother paced the floor weeping aloud in her despair. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the guards was moved by the women’s hymns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The organ turned to a melancholy last hymn, playing too slowly; after four verses, it sighed to silence a phrase or two behind the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Dad had a fine baritone, with strength and timbre and range, and despite being tanked, he sang that hymn like the roof-raiser it is. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Dilsey moved about the kitchen, singing the two lines of the hymn which she remembered. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the papyrology collection of the Sackler Library at the University of Oxford is the world’s oldest surviving Christian hymn, featuring a form of now undecipherable notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was highly likely that the serpent of sin that nosed about the chambers of my heart was lashed to hunger by hymns as well as dreams, each reciprocally feeding the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I couldn’t find any I would watch the Growing Souls Gospel Hour, where they would tell Bible stories for children and sing hymns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Marine Corps hymn was the family song, the song of a warrior’s family, the song of war, the Meecham song. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were such weird songs it took me a while to realize they followed the tunes of Christian hymns, “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “What a Friend I Have in Jesus,” which made my skin crawl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Queen had hugged him and hummed old hymns to him and filled in the empty spaces in his heart. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to “Softly and Tenderly,” “In the Garden” was Great-great-aunt Florentine’s favorite hymn. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let us turn to hymn one hundred eighteen,” announced Reverend Buckminster. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z So he picked up the pace with a few Civil War hymns, but even so, she finally waved her hand and told him to stop. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z German pilgrims, Italians humming hymns, and Japanese travelers wearing small purple caps converged on the same narrow pathways. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Today’s hymn was Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Forgive Our Foolish Ways; we had never heard that during the summer either. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “It sounds like a hymn that needs to be played loud.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Then there’s a long prayer, about unworthy vessels, then a hymn: “There Is a Balm in Gilead.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian Woodward played the hymn like a dirge, and there is nothing like playing a march like a dirge to irritate a congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z We burned up some of it singing sea chanteys and pirate songs with naughty words, being careful to switch to hymns when other riders came into view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Furniture was overturned, statuary broken, walls stained; the pages of torn hymn books lay about everywhere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The only thing that I liked about the day was singing hymns. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Late in the evening we will sometimes pull into the dirt parking lot of a clapboard praise house and listen to old, dark Gullah hymns rising out the windows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The old warrior hymns swell in her heart. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The old ladies took up the hymn and shared it in tight harmony. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the evangelists, a man and a woman, held hands and seesawed from side to side like babies being rocked to sleep, singing and humming excerpts from some cryptic hymns. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to see my father alone, without the small congregation as witnesses, so I asked for another bowl of stew and drank it slowly while they walked to him singing a mournful hymn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Every minute counted, and I didn’t know how long this hymn might last. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He said that if he was executed as scheduled, he wanted me to get the prison to play a recording of a hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross,” as he walked to the electric chair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary lay in their trundle bed and listened to the Sunday hymns, for even the fiddle must not sing the week-day songs on Sundays. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Will put some silver paste over the wound and hummed words in Ancient Greek—a hymn to Apollo. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Haiti's Wyclef Jean recalled loving Cliff's songs so much he translated some of them into hymns so his father would allow them to be sung in church. ABBA, Genesis, Stooges honored 2010-03-16T13:16:00Z Details of the wedding service released on Thursday showed the music would have a largely British theme and will include Welsh hymns illustrating the couple's connection to Wales. Fervor builds ahead of British royal wedding 2011-04-28T13:47:35Z The most famous song, the hymn, "Come Sunday," was actually composed in 1943 as part of the African-American pageant "Black, Brown and Beige." Duke Ellington's sacred music: a jazz prayer 2011-12-23T20:22:05Z Wilson recently told The Times that she attended a Christian school where she sang hymns. Rebel Wilson is 35, not 29; she says she's a 100-year-old mermaid 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “The star of Bethlehem is the origin for all of the Christian hymns around Christmas,” he says. A guide to the secret meaning of holiday symbols 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Everything contributes to this hymn to summer's lease – warm light, soft countryside, wide-open spaces. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z It is set to Aaron Copland’s irresistible orchestration of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Hathaway showed him how to play a jazzy version of the hymn “Nothing but the Blood,” Smallwood recalls. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z We’d stand there silently while the protesters yelled at us and sang their hymns. My illegal abortion 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z Joined by the bluegrass singer and multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky, the quartet performed songs, hymns and fiddle tunes from its new CD “1865,” weaving them into a memorial wreath that was fresh, humble and deeply poignant. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The ceremony was a celebration of Britishness and the notion of monarchy, filled with sweeping allusions to the outsize grandeur of these tiny islands in hymns, anthems and readings. Sealed with 2 kisses 2011-04-30T05:15:58Z Mr. Pope sings forth his dialogue with the rhythmic bite he also brings to the many spirituals and hymns that are used as the play’s connective tissue. Theater Review: In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ Spirituals Are Solace 2013-07-03T02:00:02Z Then, a series of escalating ruminations on another hymn, “Shall We Gather at the River?,” first on a solo viola, build up to a fiery orchestral tutti. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Moonshine is available for drinking, and if the gatherings go late you can be sure there will be dancing and singing — and not just patriotic hymns from the likes of Murkowski. Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Moustaki achieved fame in France with songs including Le Métèque and Ma Liberté, a hymn to the free spirit of the 1960s, which, with his bushy beard and mop of hair, he seemed to personify. Georges Moustaki obituary 2013-05-24T21:03:52Z Grant has written almost supernaturally beautiful hymns of love, despair, chaos and ultimate redemption. Albums of 2010, No 10: John Grant - Queen of Denmark 2010-12-13T10:42:00Z I had long known that he wrote “A Mighty Fortress” and several other hymns, but I had no idea how many more. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Page’s charcoal baritone seductively wraps itself around Ms. Mitchell’s songs as he hymns the comforts that await Eurydice down below, and mocks Orpheus’s promises: Review: ‘Hadestown’ Reanimates a Well-Known Myth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z One number in particular, Charles H. Gabriel’s hymn “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” with the line “I sing because I’m happy,” epitomized the group’s approach to the whole: a sheer, unabashed joy in music-making. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Ring, a spectacular street-style dance crew whose members snake across the stage, their liquid limbs contorting into wild poses as a chorus hymns the hero’s feats of prowess. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z One of these is “Simple Gifts,” the best known of Shaker hymns. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But was a hymn to family solidarity in mean circumstances. Review of Dream House, starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz 2011-09-30T20:05:00Z The Edwin Hawkins Singers turn a gospel arrangement of an 18th-century hymn into a No. 4 pop hit, “Oh Happy Day,” gospel’s first gold record. Gospel stars unite at Kennedy Center: Rejoice! 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Listen to the hymns that are assigned to the Christmas season and you'll find no particular contours to their melodies or rhythms that distinguish them from the music written for any other time. The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z Hindu collective Quintessence repeat chants and mantras in their sitar-aided devotional hymn to a holy mountain. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z When the piece navigates through Alabama, the Orpheus players stand and belt a hymn from “The Sacred Harp,” the 19th-century Southern book of shape-note tunes. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z The band played the hymn tune There Is A Green Hill Far Away at the spot where the tragedy happened, a performance that moved onlookers to tears. Brighouse and Rastrick band tunes up for battle in the Pennines 2012-05-30T09:00:00Z Jackson’s new “The Bluegrass Album,” much like his two collections of gospel hymns, brings out another form of American roots music that he loves. Review: Alan Jackson Adds New Facet to Sound 2013-09-23T18:02:40Z How this hymn, the greatest example of American lamentation, how it travels. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Like other movies by Mr. Allen, including “Radio Days” and “Midnight in Paris,” “Bullets” was a wry but affectionate hymn to an urban dreamscape of another era. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z As the presumably director-approved production notes modestly put it, this is "a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions". The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z He adds: "The whole film is a hymn to Western Australia where the landscape is like the surface of Mars, and which has its own terrible beauty." Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z The Apollo’s Fire disc mixes Appalachian songs and instrumentals with Southern hymns. Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z Some of the season’s more dour observances are noted with a single carol or hymn apiece, but given the nature of the feasts these are in some ways the most striking. Music Review: Evoking the Moods and Mysteries of a Medieval English Christmastide 2010-12-22T23:06:12Z The hymns - "Guide me, O thou great redeemer," "Love divine, all loves excelling" and "Jerusalem" - are standards at Church of England marriage ceremonies. William, Kate thank everyone for their kindness 2011-04-28T12:25:10Z The concert opened with Bruckner’s majestic Te Deum, a hymn of praise to God. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z While the film, an adaptation of the Ronald Harwood play, makes the point that old age is not for sissies, it is also a hymn to the human spirit. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z You can’t watch Tarantino at work and not see his hymn to old Hollywood as also lamenting the place it has become, a behemoth humbled by time, taste and technology. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z As you wandered through, you heard the Spiritualized track “Ladies and Gentleman, We Are Floating in Space”— a bleary hymn based on Pachelbel’s Canon — looping in surround-sound. Critic?s Notebook: At Coachella, Every Note Is Writ Large 2011-04-18T22:38:19Z "Yanks go home!" it declared, hymning a new wave of British groups: Suede, the Auteurs, Pulp, Saint Etienne, and another group whose fame turned out to be illusory: Denim. Denim: Britpop's less successful fabric 2010-10-21T20:40:00Z The siren’s call, a distinctive sequence of four notes, is based on the Dies Irae, a Latin hymn best known for being used in the Catholic Mass for the dead. How to Follow Up ‘Frozen’? With Melancholy and a Power Ballad 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It was not supposed to be a funeral hymn. Hear MUNA's Uplifting New Song for the LGBTQ Community 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z And directly behind the presidential seal, which was affixed to the Blue Room balcony, was his entertainment: a wedding-reception muddle of pop hymn, patriotic anthem and hoi-polloi opera. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Bob Telson's music shifts seamlessly between rousing gospel hymns, muggy blues and honeyed doo-wop, while the multiple soloists revel in every opportunity to show off their scintillating high notes and stylistic flourishes. The Gospel at Colonus 2010-08-22T14:51:00Z The Babylonians' great hymn to Merodak suggests a fanaticism that is disquieting in the extreme. The Prodigal Son/The Burning Fiery Furnace – review 2013-07-07T17:20:00Z We read him for his warm and vast-as-America hymning, and her for crabbed and cryptic messages left in a poetic bottle. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z The singers turn to the relevant page in their hymn books and, with no instrumental accompaniment to guide them, beginning humming to establish a pitch. Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Photograph: Alamy The Church of England has issued new advice to churches on the use of the popular hymn Jerusalem at weddings. Should Jerusalem be sung here? 2010-07-15T15:04:00Z A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art. Tim Key's exclusive Ode to the Edinburgh festival 2011-07-29T16:30:00Z One of the most guileless tunes in Hurley’s catalog, this feels like the hymn for his personal religion. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z For all their differences, the Le Pens, Wilders and even Breivik are all singing from the same hymn book, as Europe’s far right marches on. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z TV drama is singing, like an inescapable, drunk, intolerably male karaoke singer massacring Like a Virgin, from the same hymn sheet. Does feel-bad TV make us feel good? 2013-06-11T07:00:00Z A group of Kurdish women began singing their national hymn, and a group of Turkish men countered with their own national anthem. Golden Statue of Erdogan Is Removed in German City 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Wachner prepared the audience by first sitting at a piano onstage and leading everyone in some hymn singing. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Inside, sheltered from the noonday chill, an organist practiced hymns on the 2,000-pipe instrument, filling the vaulted space with haunting tones. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z Eric Church opened the live three-hour broadcast from Nashville, which aired on ABC, with an a cappella rendition of the hymn “Amazing Grace.” Tribute to Las Vegas victims marks CMA Awards as Brooks wins top award 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z By the end, when the feuding students have learned the errors of their divergent ways, high-volume hymns of uplift have taken over. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z It was a calm defense of mystery; the hymns were the form for the verse, but explained little of their deeper allure. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z They intelligently plundered, Mr. Young writes, “pagan chant and Christian hymns; medieval, Tudor and Restoration secular sounds; the nature-worshiping verse of the revolutionary Romantics.” Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z "Guide me, O thou great redeemer" was also the final hymn at Princess Diana's funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1997. William, Kate thank everyone for their kindness 2011-04-28T12:25:10Z The Roman Catholic Church says the singer will perform hymns and sing with an 800-strong choir at an open-air papal Mass in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on Sept. Susan Boyle to sing for the pope during UK tour 2010-08-25T18:15:00Z It would be useful if Christians could begin dismantling and rebuilding liturgical components such as prayers and hymns and replace the word “pride” with language that more accurately characterizes the problematic posture or behavior. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z A fair amount of poetry, of course, can be found in hymns. Australian poet, Les Murray 2010-04-29T13:15:00Z Opening the program’s second half, chorus members stationed throughout the space led audience members in “Idumea,” a shape-note hymn by Charles Wesley. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette 2012-03-26T22:28:24Z Which is why "I'm Still Here," Sondheim's ferocious hymn of survival from "Follies," got the cheering audience on its feet. Philharmonic celebrates Sondheim's 80th birthday 2010-03-16T11:52:00Z It was based on old gospel songs, primarily “I’ll Overcome,” a hymn that striking tobacco workers had sung on a picket line in South Carolina. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z She wrote many of the songs on her stirring 2022 album “And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow,” as hymns to the collective epidemic of loneliness brought on by the pandemic. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z We are even treated to a short shouted chorus of Sun Ra’s most famous hymn, “Space Is the Place.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The music included 14 choir pieces focused on worship and nontraditional hymns, as well as reworked versions of songs by No Doubt and Nirvana. Kanye West attracts thousands to Wyoming for worship service 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z I grew up knowing and learning Pentecostal hymns, which are so evocatively written and full of these strong words and images. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Texas Oil Boom Fuels a Family Saga 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Old Southern hymns that I grew up with. Q&A with Leslie Jordan: Why he made a country album, how Capote saved his life and spending time in the ‘pokey’ with Robert Downey Jr. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z He took that and created this gorgeous hymn, which we then play from the beginning where you don't know; it could be just a church song. "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z And I can’t escape tears when the outgoing president hymns “the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government.” ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z He adapted the texts for the five songs from hymns, Romantic lieder and blues songs, woven through with dulcimer, banjo, strings, winds, percussion and electronics. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z To adapt them for children in his own congregation, he created a Hanukkah assembly where the holiday’s story was told, blessings and hymns were sung, candles were lighted and sweets were distributed to the children. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z I was listening to this Whitney Houston clip from the "Arsenio Hall Show" where she's just singing a hymn just off the top of the dome. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Eventually wails and pummeling drums; thwacks stark as bullets; and buzzing, bawling electric guitar overwhelm the shining ecstatic wonder, the wordless hymns. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Even Dr. Pascual may just stay home on Sunday, as her two associate organists will be on hand to lead “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” and other traditional hymns and ancient chants. For Musicians This Easter, Still Looking to Soar in Empty Spaces 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “I’m in my 20s so I panic in every way/I’m so scared of the future I keep missing today,” the two women in Ider sing in this hymn to millennial stresses. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The film isn't really interested in exploring humanity's predicament; it wants to get on with singing that hymn to life. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z And Burgess, who once sang hymns with Rosena in the kitchen of that old Athens house, is still spiritual, attending Middle Collegiate Church in the thick of the East Village. Is Tituss Burgess like his meme-able ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ character? Well, yes and no. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The record opens with a bare bones ballad, pointedly called Happy, which begins: "I sang a hymn to bring me peace... and all the sadness inside me melted away." Marina: 'Co-writing is killing pop' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z But this was a show that put its hymns in the forefront. Grammy Awards: Pharrell Williams, Madonna and Sia Offered Hymns Somber and Strange 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s a hymn to archetypes and eternity, as well as alchemy. Review | In the galleries: Circles of life at annual benefit for people living with cancer 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z With the new Carols for Choirs hymn arrangements, he added, “you had a whole new approach to carols, which was post-Holst and Vaughan Williams.” ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the surging quality of Strayhorn's melody lines and the yearning character of his chord changes established "A Christmas Surprise" as a significant piece, conceived as both hymn and prayer. 'A Christmas Surprise' from Tammy McCann, thanks to Billy Strayhorn 2010-12-19T13:24:00Z But another 24 hours later, my family labored through hymns and tears at her bedside. Finally, a Wedding. It Was About Time. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The album — collecting seven original tunes and two takes on a Christian hymn — reflects the group’s ethereal, communal approach. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z During the inaugural events, there were multiple renditions of “Amazing Grace,” the English hymn that became a Black spiritual in the United States. At Biden’s Inaugural Events, the Music Was Earnestly Reassuring 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z As images of candles flicker on the walls, a bell begins to toll and an angelic hymn fills the room. Bites: Restaurant Report: Ultraviolet in Shanghai 2012-10-03T21:27:47Z But it wouldn’t have been nearly as potent a nostalgia injection if it hadn’t been all bathed in the old film’s warm, buzzy, synthesizer hymn by Vangelis. How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Grace Nichols hymns the 'confluence of the Hull and the Humber'. What fresh Hull is this? 2010-06-24T13:50:00Z And the country singer Hunter Hayes introduced his new single, “Invisible,” an anti-bullying hymn. Critic’s Notebook: Grammy Awards Feature Wild Swings and Partnerships 2014-01-27T05:17:25Z A clear parallel to the partisan braggadocio of Hamilton’s indelible Act I number “My Shot” is Billings’s hymn “Chester,” first published in 1770. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Offsetting Mr. Muhly’s works — and, in a way, explaining their roots — were a few richly harmonized Howells hymns, and selections from Byrd’s sublime “Great Service.” Music Review: Trinity Choir in Nico Muhly Works at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-07-02T20:54:29Z As it happens, I'm sympathetic to the motives that impelled Eyres to write his dotty hymn of praise. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z “To me, ideal plant music shares something in common with hymns and other worship music used to inspire a connection between yourself and something greater,” Wells said. A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z That’s not the first line of the hymn; that’s not even a line of the hymn, at least according to the man who wrote it. Coca-Cola didn’t invent Santa ... the 10 biggest Christmas myths debunked 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z When you reach Room 306 in the motel, the final exhibit in the self-guided tour through the museum, the hymn “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” King’s favorite, can be heard wafting through the area. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Great Arbiter of human fate whose glory ne'er decays,” Moise began the hymn, “To Thee alone we dedicate the song and soul of praise.” How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z As they sang lilting hymns at the funeral, some of the red-gowned choir members put their arms around each other. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z During a concert built around the Protestant hymns on his gorgeous and contemplative new album, “Be Still” — due out on Tuesday on Greenleaf, his independent label — Mr. Douglas spoke of his motivation only in passing. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z Along with singing traditional hymns, members chant along to “A Love Supreme.” Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This perspective comes across best in hymns performed by members of the church to which Luke’s parents belong, in which tunes of sweet uplift are tugged by an ominous undertow. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Beyoncé simply sang the hymn — sang the stuffing out of it, actually — while her face beamed an expression of pain. Grammys 2015 was a low-wattage affair 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z A CD of her favorite hymns is playing in her room. Mother of GMA co-host Robin Roberts dies 2012-08-31T12:48:10Z A caroling session sprinkled with occasional reminiscences, Irish Repertory Theater’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” adapts the Dylan Thomas prose poem into a play with plenty of hymns. Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ From Irish Repertory Theater 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “His lyrics made up not songs, but rather hymns.” Juan Gabriel, a Pop Music ‘Icon’ in Mexico, Dies at 66 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The third movement is a sturdy but elusive fugue on a hymn tune; the final movement, the most cosmic and cacophonous, is at once ecstatic and terrifying. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Tyson needed no introduction to the hymn. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z "But what is your favorite hymn? Who will—" Our last visit, on death row 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Much of its thematic material derives from the “Gathas,” Zoroastrian hymns first sung between 3,500 and 4,000 years ago. Eric Banks: Esoterics founder an explorer of new vocal worlds 2013-05-04T14:34:47Z Another was Richard Farina’s gung-ho anthem, “The Bold Marauder,” a folkie battle hymn of “the white destroyer” whose stinging lyrics promise “death will be our darling/and fear will be our name.” Review: Nellie McKay Goes Retro to Days of Song and Psychedelia 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Some of the greatest hymns have come from sorrow, for sorrow is universal. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It is easy in a country dedicated to a megalomaniacal style of self-praise to grow tired of all the parades, hymns, and maudlin speeches about the wisdom of the “founding fathers.” We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z For all of the Pogues' ability to provoke rowdiness, they excelled at performing ballads, laments and hymns that demanded more proficiency than that belonging to a simple bar band. Pogues, MacGowan bid a gruff, stomping farewell 2011-03-04T14:46:29Z Her congregation, Beth Elohim, publicized the hymn by including it in their hymnbook. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It is part chant and part hymn but is rife with a reverence that reveals Williams’s expansive bebop and blues harmonic ingenuity. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Next to “Dixie” like this, it’s a jarring reminder that our country has a battle hymn. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Her debut release in 2004, Premiere, blended classical songs and Welsh hymns and went to number one in the Classical Album chart. Katherine Jenkins in new record deal 2014-01-20T14:50:32Z He requested the hymn “Last Full Measure of Devotion” sung by “a good male soloist,” and a plain stone at Arlington, with his Navy number on it and the words: “He loved Barbara very much.” Perspective | How George H.W. Bush used handwritten thank-you notes to build bridges 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The city's zoo itself was a hymn to cultural "diversity", with the aviary designed as a miniature Russian Orthodox church and the bear house a Jacobean castle. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z Pharaoh Akhenaten writes a hymn to the sun, and more than 3,000 years later we know something of Egyptian religion. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z At 14 he wrote his first song, and it married the white gospel of North Carolina to the Episcopal hymns at boarding school in Massachusetts. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Or not singing from any hymn sheet, actually, because this is not the 19th century and Linda is no missionary, thank God. Last night's TV 2010-06-16T07:00:00Z "Sunlight" is a pastoral country hymn with harmonica and slide-guitar adornments. Smooth sailing with Rocky Votolato's new sound 2012-06-07T20:48:07Z When Henry has a breakdown, he asks his mother “to sing him a protest hymn by James Russell Lowell, the 19th-century New England poet, critic and anti-slavery advocate.” Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z Famous fans like Stewart Lee have hymned the show's odd profundity: Jackson's ideology throws into relief the purposelessness of our supposedly meaningful lives. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z The penultimate movement, “O Albion,” is a lush, longing hymn that evokes both Elgar and the aching Cavatina in Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13, Op. Music Review: Calder Quartet and Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:19:01Z But the score’s variety — it draws on hymns, marches and several ballad styles — is its saving grace. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space 2012-06-28T21:08:15Z As the morning went on, the hymn spread. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z When the cast joins voices in a hymn or madrigal by Byrd, there’s something very touching about the melding of all those voices, given the discord of the characters we’ve met. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z Her poems use conventional forms that echo Christian hymns. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In their brilliant, irresistible new recording the sonatas sound warm and spiky, daring and satisfying, infusing the hymns, songs and dances of American history with bold harmonies and rhythms. Classical Recordings: ?Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z For centuries, Scipio explained, giant local men wrestled giant thrashing tuna from the bloodied seas while singing medieval hymns of thanks and praise. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z After Columbine, she wrote a hymn called “God, We Have Heard It.” A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I can recall being a seventh grader in a church choir surrounded by tittering children embarrassed at having to sing the word “bosom” in a popular hymn. Music Review: Maude Maggart’s ‘Into the Garden’ at Feinstein’s 2012-06-07T21:52:17Z The new songs rove from U2’s arena anthems to celestial ambient hymns, echoes of 1950s rock and glimpses of disco and new wave. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In these early 20th century scores, Ives transforms old hymn tunes into excitedly original elicitations of messy modern life. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Lee "With a song in my heart / I behold your adorable face /Just a song at the start /but it soon is a hymn to your grace." Family life 2013-04-06T06:15:01Z Named for one of his earliest pieces, the album offers a version of the “Dorian” Short Service, hymns and responsories: beauty everywhere, and a few startling harmonic turns. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z While preparing the premiere of his symphonic hymn to mankind, which sets Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” in its finale, Beethoven was abusive to devoted assistants like Anton Schindler, an early biographer. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z He arranged the flowers, sang a hymn at the memorial service and escorted my aunt to and from her husband’s grave. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z In her e-mail, Carolyn Gillette drew a distinction between the practical way we talk about our political problems and the way we communicate in a hymn. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z "Like the lavish filaments it hymns, Hair is wild, rambling, even chaotic," he says. What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z Plus, there is the appeal of the hymn itself — President Obama recently reminded the world of the song’s power by singing it at the funeral of a murdered pastor in Charleston, S.C. The Cast of ‘Amazing Grace’ Grapples With Slavery 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The traditional English church choir includes men singing in their falsettos to provide the alto line in hymns and anthems. Falsetto: The enduring love affair with the soaring male voice 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The book is a hymn to life’s physical and mental chaos, not to the harmonies faith would impose. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z But Mr. Nelsons eased into the hypnotic strains of the final hymn of praise with utmost delicacy and refinement. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2012-07-16T22:18:50Z She’s eternally consonant, bringing melodies that are steeped in hymn, lullaby, waltz, Baroque opera and Celtic tradition, all radiating a free-floating reverence. On ‘Dark Sky Island,’ Enya Doesn’t Stray Far From Continuity and Comfort 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z “Darling, it’s better down where it’s wetter,” sang the calypso crab to the fishtailed heroine of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” in 1989, hymning the joys of ocean-floor habitation. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The show toes the line of accurate, modern representation by weaving together the teen characters' omnivorous, streaming-age musical references with Indigenous hymns and slang. On "Reservation Dogs," the raddest soundtrack on TV "breaks expectations" for Native storytelling 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The only full-blown composition was Paul Motian’s “Victoria,” a sober hymn whose melody unfurled on both piano and bass, in slow-drift octaves. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In a sound installation by the British artist Susan Philipsz a woman’s voice, high, sad and faint, periodically floats through the space, singing “The Internationale,” the old Communist anthem, as if it were a hymn. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” and “Rock With You” and “Off the Wall” — the critic Margo Jefferson once described the appeal of these dance floor hymns with blunt-force clarity: “It’s trance music.” Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The melody is woven through the body of the musical, and the full hymn is sung during the epilogue and reprised at the curtain call, at which point audiences often stand and join in. The Cast of ‘Amazing Grace’ Grapples With Slavery 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Living with my brother as a graduate student I was forced to listen to 24 hours of hymns from the Sikh scriptures playing on the stereo. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z The crucial dungeon scene lacks electricity, the final hymn to marital love lacks elation. Fidelio ? review 2011-03-30T18:45:01Z Neither the subject nor director ask for sympathy; what emerges is a nuanced hymn to the human spirit that still saddens, even when it inspires. Planet of Snail – review 2012-06-21T21:00:03Z I slipped in at the back and murmured along to hymn number 158, “Earth Has Many a Noble City.” T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z His mother played piano at a Methodist church; he sang the hymn often and his grandmother sang it to him. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z Dense and stately, with strands of melody filling every chink in the inner voices, it is anthem as hymn. New York Philharmonic’s Fourth of July Celebration 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z "We celebrate the spirit of the cowboy with old hymns and a short sermon," explains George in his fancy minister's garb--jeans and a cowboy hat. Cool Off in Fort Worth 2011-06-29T13:20:13.430Z He had an evened-out, coherent composing voice that contained bebop and rock, gospel hymns and country, free jazz and funk and midcentury film music and Charles Ives. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone 2013-05-22T21:46:01Z Its staid piano-and-strings arrangements are heavily draped around Ms. Boyle’s sweet voice, which treats every number as a stolid hymn without psychological subtext. New Music From Miranda Lambert and Susan Boyle ? Reviews 2011-10-31T22:17:23Z At a moment when the very idea of new age music seemed like a punchline, her largely wordless, a cappella hymns offered a reminder of the transformative power of something intensely beautiful. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z And what a hymn to the transfixing power of books and reading at all ages and in all seasons – for what's better than a good book? The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z A hymn to an America rarely seen on television it featured outstanding performances, a smart script and one of the most realistic marriages ever committed to screen. Take five: classic US drama box sets 2012-08-10T12:29:34Z One family is shown reciting hymn lyrics at the bedside of a teenage girl who was severely injured in a car accident. Television Review: In ‘Questioning Darwin,’ No Easy Answers 2014-02-09T20:21:21Z Their score, nimbly handled by the conductor John Kennedy and the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, is a melting pot inspired by bluegrass, hymns, spirituals and more, with nods to traditions from Africa and Islam. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Grace Potter, accompanying herself on organ in a beautifully sparse arrangement, made Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” a pure, lonely hymn. Music Review: ‘Love for Levon,’ Tribute to Helm at Izod Center 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z Later there came a quieter but still impassioned refrain: “We need new hymns. We need new psalms.” Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z His killer whistles the same hymn as he drives away. A journalist on the crime beat becomes the subject of some skeptical journalism 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z She laughs off the controversy that saw protesters hold up wooden crosses and sing hymns outside of Cyprus’ state broadcaster in March. Eurovision Song Contest returns despite coronavirus pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The reflective “Tree of Life” is carried only by a mournful chorus fit for a funeral hymn. Damon Albarn's Dr Dee: The Blur Frontman Takes a Moody Detour 2012-05-11T10:45:16Z His last hymns of earthly despair continued to speak in, and bear witness to, the multiplicity of human experience. A Composer of Dark Explosions Turns 100 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z People still hymn, with some justification, the complexity of the cox’s orange pippin, which is, variously, credited with spice-like, honeyed and subtle tropical fruit flavours, but how often have you eaten a genuinely outstanding one? How to eat: apples 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z It is a sacred song, more resonant for me than any hymn I learned in my churchgoing childhood. How a Jerry Herman Song Called a Future Critic to New York 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z There’s an old Zionist hymn that begins with the line “Here in the land our forefathers ached for, all of our hopes will be fulfilled.” Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But these ancient strains disintegrate, long before the whole hymn is heard. New-Music Festival in Chicago Offers the Complicated and the Compelling 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z And as musicians strum old folk tunes and hymns, it sounds like a rustic America time has forgotten. Satori Group takes you into the wild 2013-03-06T22:26:43Z By the time of the duo's extemporised hymn to Edinburgh, which does nothing other than find half-rhymes for words like "hops" and "Five Pound Fringe", this viewer was getting doggerel-tired. Abandoman 2010-08-16T14:49:00Z Some of the words, coming in widely spaced, suspense-producing phrases, were “soon, I’ll pass by” and “now,” which made the song a hymn to ephemerality, describing the whole occasion while transfiguring it. Taking a Dance Vacation at Rockaway 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z A hymn to freedom and social justice, this classic is steeped in the soil and lore of southern Turkey’s Çukurova region, where Kemal was raised. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Pump House Gallery, SW11, to 26 Sep ORIGIN010, Sheffield Paul Evans's installation adds up to a personal hymn to natural diversity. This week's new art picks 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z A Sam Cooke-tinged soul hymn written with Napier, it mourns through its recriminations. Bile and the Beat Fight Heartbreak on Sam Smith’s ‘Love Goes’ 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z And when the models finally came out in their patterned beach wear, the music was inevitably that hymn to Mediterranean vacations: “Volare.” Going to the Max: Dolce & Gabbana 2012-09-23T17:57:26Z This “Moïse” ends with the Hebrews scattered among the audience for the final hymn of thanks for their deliverance. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Pullman’s trilogy is a hymn to the materiality of the human body. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The group immediately started singing hymns set to popular melodies and marching through lower Manhattan. How Salvation Army’s red kettles became a Christmas tradition 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z There was something uncomfortable in the hymning of a lost South while not hearing the other side of the narrative. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The song he mentions was an incongruous top-20 hit in 1985: a hymn to the human hopes that were met by the post-war social settlement, but were then being crushed by the Thatcher government. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z “A Night at the Opera” will begin with popular arias and classical art songs; these will be followed by hymns and spirituals, as well as works by Langston Hughes. Northwest African American Museum and Seattle Opera team up for drive-in concert film celebrating Black voices 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “There was a little Post-it note in it,” he recalled, “and it was the hymn that she had played at her own son’s funeral.” Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z As a secular humanist, I'd paradoxically be very happy with any one of a number of bittersweet hymns. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z We did get to choose our own hymns, rather unusual ones for a wedding, the minister thought. Family life 2012-06-22T23:05:19Z Before you go to that, check out Byzantine Pop-Ups in the Medieval Scripture Hall, featuring hymns and carols from performers in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z "Come Sunday," a collection of hymns and spirituals, is a follow-up to his 1995 Grammy-nominated duet CD "Steal Away" with pianist Hank Jones, recorded in February 2010, just three months before Jones' death. Grammy honor lifts spirits of ailing jazz legend 2013-02-08T16:44:08Z A soundtrack of hymns plays in the gallery, but so does a live police scanner. Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Written by Fred Neil – this is a hymn to constant, rolling change, to never letting the world grow boring around you. Happy Christmas from Readers recommend 2010-12-24T00:01:08Z As the central element of Indian music, the raga originated with the ancient Vedic hymns sung in Hindu temples and is intended to create a trancelike spiritual mood. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And so I did, with thanks to the Unitarian Universalists for the “gender-sensitive guide to hymns” at the back of their handout, after which I immediately segued into the Sunday big-tent congregation. An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z He was also, in the opinion of many, reggae’s greatest singer, so deeply spiritual he could transform “Do re mi fa so la ti do” into a hymn. Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The war wasn’t over in 1944 when Prokofiev wrote his Fifth Symphony as a hopeful “hymn to a happy man,” an anxious exercise in optimism rising from disaster. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Among the other proper hymns are “God Be With You,” “This Is My Father’s World,” and as a valediction, “Whither Must I Wander?,” which features Mr. Douglas’s horn at its most poetic. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z Luther established his own musical currency in the form of chorales, those hymns in the vernacular. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z He was more comforting in “Rest,” a folky hymn he played alone on guitar, promising, “I won’t let you worry”; he was taking the worry upon himself. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z Happiness, as hymned in these renditions, would never be won easily. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Instead of singing traditional hymns, members chant along to “A Love Supreme.” Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “Maybe ‘Rainbow Connection’ is a camouflaged hymn,” Williams says. National Recording Registry adds its first frog (Kermit) and its first podcast 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z And under the number of the hymn, printed in small italics, was usually the name of the author. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z “The Record” begins the way the “boygenius” EP ended: a cappella, just three voices sharing major chords like a family singing a hymn. The Indie-Rock Trio boygenius Returns, Confident and Connected 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The melodies he teased out became like mantras or hymns, to be passed between the voices of the ensemble. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z A slow waltz by the tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chet Doxas, from Montreal, it inhabits a kind of arid terrain between Protestant hymn and cowboy tune. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z There is no charge for entry; all ages are welcome; fans refrain from dancing during hymns; and, just like a church supper, food is brought for sharing. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The film isn't just tapping into the fantasy of being able to rewrite the past and make the present perfect, it's also a fond hymn to connectivity and community. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z The music wholeheartedly embraces a deeply British pomp that’s rooted in hymns and marches, then escalated by rock drums and electronics. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z The first movement is a glorious hymn, and those climaxes gradually grew in intensity. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In their shared “bubble room,” Leaper sang the hymn “How Great Thou Art”: I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder / Thy power throughout the universe displayed. While America fixated on election results, Americans battled covid-19 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Out of their hymns and dances come Beethoven and Bach. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z That a Black woman from Depression-era Detroit established an ashram in the hills of California next to a horse ranch and performed centuries-old Indian hymns there still boggles the mind. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The long Greek Suite is a mix of traditional songs, hymns and ballads, but it rocks as much as it laments. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert ? review 2011-08-25T20:31:01Z From Sturgill Simpson to Canned Heat, from classic hip-hop to traditional Native hymns, the soundtrack is more than background ambiance: It actively develops these multi-generational characters. On "Reservation Dogs," the raddest soundtrack on TV "breaks expectations" for Native storytelling 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The thoughtful arrangements, recorded at his home, are mostly folky and acoustic, and the song list leans toward hymns and the more reverential carols. 13 Albums That Revisit (and Redefine!) Holiday Classics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The song is Paul Simon’s “American Tune,” a secular hymn of perseverance, and he starts out solemn, backed only by an acoustic guitar. Review: Allen Toussaint’s Last Album, ‘American Tunes’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The singer, with assistance from his wife, Mary Davis-Travis, and friend Garth Brooks, led the audience in singing the hymn and the crowd stood in applause at the end as he smiled. Randy Travis stuns crowd, sings at Hall of Fame induction 3 years after stroke 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Anyone knowing just the famous overture will be surprised by the range and expansiveness of Rossini's writing throughout this high-minded hymn to freedom. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z “Immortal, invisible, God only wise / In light inaccessible hid from all eyes” — so goes the hymn that neatly encapsulates some of our modern problems with divinity and its relation to humanity and the natural world. Piecing Together God’s Body, From Head to Toe 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Apart from the table, the stage is bare but full of change, quickening and dying under Paule Constable's lighting, made solemn or gleeful by the singing of hymns and nursery rhymes. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z At the matinee I attended, Ms. Tyson’s interpretation of that hymn was so infectious that much of the audience was soon singing and clapping along. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z I lost my faith, dramatically, when I was 26, but I’m still moved by the poetry of the Bible and the beauty of church music and hymns. The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z At times, he seems to be channeling Austin Powers: An ancient Egyptian hymn is translated, “Let him drink, let him eat, let him shag.” Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z In Greenwich, London, people watching the wedding on a big screen whooped and cheered when the bride and groom kissed, and sang along to the hymns. Britons celebrate royal wedding with picnics and street parties 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “Rumblin,’ ” a song about portents of change, merges a hymn and a burgeoning earthquake. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z These are calming hymns for another chaotic time. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Kander’s arsenal ranges from hopeful hymns to sassy blues, and his earnest grounding allows him to hit notes of pure menace and simply stated hope without sounding bombastic or trite. Life after a teen kidnapping in new Kander-Pierce musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The recent anthology “Women’s Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia” gathers nearly a hundred hymns, poems, letters, inscriptions and other texts by female authors. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Those fearing for Brand's supposed iconoclasm are advised not to read his New Statesman dialogue with David Walliams, in which the pair hymn the praises of the Queen. Is that a joke? 'Inappropriate' comedy in the spotlight again 2012-07-17T17:20:21Z There’s an echo of this in Davis’s autobiography when she writes: “I have always been driven by some distant music – a battle hymn no doubt – for I have been at war since the beginning.” My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z The surprise, for him as much as us, is that the real Tom Jones is not found between the Vegas lights and the knicker-strewn stage, but here among the hymns of home. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z From the strings’ hushed hymn to nature at the opening, through invasion and battle music, to a glittering apotheosis, complete with bells, chimes and cymbals, Mr. Noseda drew polished playing through the full dynamic spectrum. Review: Gianandrea Noseda Returns to a New York Philharmonic in Transition 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The text and hymn melody were first printed together in 1599. Review: In Time for the Holidays, Radiant Praetorius Carols 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The sun rises early and fast, along with a chorus of voices singing hymns. Port-au-Prince, city of survivors: Voices from Haiti, after the devastating 2010 earthquake 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z “Gatz” was a soaring hymn to the pleasures of falling under a novel’s spell. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z In those halcyon days, it was possible to believe that Cannes and Hollywood were largely singing from the same hymn sheet. Cannes and Hollywood: a feisty marriage 2013-05-14T08:00:03Z The text of his Mass is that of an ancient Egyptian Coptic hymn that consists of only free-floating vowels. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z His 1939 “Concerto Funèbre” laments the Nazis’ rise and identifies with their victims by subtly quoting from Czech hymns, Russian workers’ songs and Jewish prayer melodies. Music Review: The Modern Beethoven Ends at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-16T21:15:58Z “There’s always a hymn not too far away.” A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z THE phrase “Angel Reapers” comes from a Shaker hymn that in turn derives from the Gospel of Matthew, whereby angels cull mankind to save the chosen few. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z We settle in on the bed, and she closes her eyes and sings a hymn, her hand clenched over her heart. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z But shortly after, the organ surged into life and the familiar notes of Hubert Parry’s “Jerusalem,” a patriotic English hymn, filled the space. An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Church bells chime the hour and serenade the tiny hamlet with hymns. Glorious Summer Retreats 2011-08-10T13:20:08.043Z Hicks in King’s College Chapel; below, a detail from its east window – her book about the stained glass was described as being ‘in part a hymn to their light’. Carola Hicks obituary 2010-07-27T17:33:00Z But generally the tone of the show was thoughtful levity, with something close to genius in the way it circumnavigated the uncomfortable associations of the hymn to cultural supremacy that ends the last act. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The opening number, “How Can I Keep From Singing?,” the traditional Quaker hymn that Pete Seeger helped popularize and to which he added words, established the program’s folk-pop emphasis. Music Review: Judy Collins at Caf? Carlyle: Folk Days to 9/11 2010-05-05T22:44:00Z Mr. Vickers was incapable of fudging a text for the sake of vocal effect, a priority he traced to his Christian upbringing, in which hymns and prayers were revered. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z “Karma Police” wrapped a threat inside a bittersweet hymn. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z "You've got everything in here," Eriksen says, "Lutheran hymns, Scots jigs, Irish reels, field hollers, a smattering of Handel and Haydn: it all went into the meat grinder." Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z That’s why there are so many ditties penned to voice the heart’s reaction to dark moments – break-up anthems, funeral hymns, power ballads, Broadway standards. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z A hymn, she wrote, “is really a prayer” set to music. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z And it was just the words to a bunch of hymns. ‘Myths and Hymns,’ a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Its generous tonal lyricism develops in layers: hymns and folk songs for the household; a square, petulant simplicity for Brother’s naïve savagery; an enigmatic chromaticism for Doodle and the pathos of time. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Latin hymn, goes on for a teeming, exuberant half-hour. Review: Tanglewood Orchestra Celebrating Its 75th 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The core of this 42-minute work, scored for orchestra, chorus, children’s chorus and soprano soloist, is a setting of passages from the Jewish hymn of praise that is recited while mourning the dead. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The “Yentl” hymn “Papa, Can You Hear Me,” on the other hand, got a splendidly soulful reading to wind up the first act, with Streisand easily navigating the melody’s rising and falling steps. Streisand at Verizon, still in one-of-a-kind voice 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Written almost exclusively in D minor and sung in Church Slavonic, the music is set to the text of an Orthodox hymn called the “Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ.” Arvo Pärt’s ‘Kanon Pokajanen,’ at the Met 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Then, shifting in an instant, he played the echoes of hymn tunes, marches and brass bands with wistful beauty. Music Review: Fill-In Delivers a Muscular Pairing of Ives and Bach?s ?Goldberg? Variations 2011-03-28T22:17:36Z His early musical talent was evident, when he would return home from church aged five or six, and play hymns on the piano. Stanley Vann obituary 2010-06-03T17:02:00Z The plan for the day was to try out some public-domain hymns, although Mr. Porterfield, keeping up the fun, allowed his guests some song choices that would have exceeded his budget. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z For five hours we sat there in the front row as Wagner's hymn to love, death, and almost endlessly deferred musical resolution played out in front of us. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z The juxtaposition of holy music and unholy lyrics might seem too facile by half; it’s a treatment long applied by giggly school children to church hymns. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z To honor Mr. Fulton’s deceased grandfather, Mr. Fulton’s parents sang his grandfather’s favorite hymn, “In the Garden.” A Celebration Designed Specifically for the Groom, Each of Them 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The hymn is a confrontation, spurred by agony, then loneliness, then immobilizing veneration. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “The series is a hymn to the male body, as well as a guide to taking care of what he saw as the most vital unit of democratic living.” Walt Whitman Promoted a Paleo Diet. Who Knew? 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Performing a mix of blues, ballads, hymns and breakdowns, the Stanley Brothers popularized a number of songs that would become bluegrass standards, among them “Mountain Dew,” “Little Maggie” and “Angel Band.” Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The sound, like Prada’s vision, seemed like a hymn to deep feeling and womanly grace. Prada Bares Her Soul 2012-09-20T18:17:18Z The result is a maddeningly obscured finale to a movie that’s both a hymn to tradition and a lament for ongoing species destruction. ‘Cemetery’ Review: Elephant Walk 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The idea of having Grace’s Christian choir practicing in her room during the meeting was cute the first time a hymn interrupted the bare-knuckles political talk, not so cute the second and third times. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Lies and More Lies, and Alicia's Big Decision 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Now her compositions have reached the Monday Evening Concerts series, reports Times classical music critic Mark Swed — kicking off the season with “rapturous hymns and songs sung with blinding luminosity.” Essential Arts & Culture: Museums facing fires, Misty Copeland onstage, and Broadway's new 'Hamilton' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The hymn tune at the heart of “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” resonated with patriotic heart and wartime nostalgia; “Uranus, the Magician” and “Neptune, the Mystic” keenly conveyed Holst’s still-awing mystery and mastery. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘The Planets’ Builds on Holst’s Work 2013-07-07T21:26:23Z Tilson Thomas, who will devote all of June in San Francisco to a Beethoven marathon, made the hymn at the end of "Soldier's Tale" glow as if out of a late Beethoven quartet. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Described as a folk-blues opera, the show is apparently drawn from discussions with the dead, perhaps theoretical, perhaps actual, and draws upon Methodist and Roman Catholic hymns. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Like Carrie Watts in the play, Ms. Tyson’s mother was a storehouse of hymns. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z No one attempts the Welsh accent with which Thomas read his own work, but two of the songs are sung in Welsh: a version of “Silent Night” and the hymn “Calon Lân.” Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ From Irish Repertory Theater 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Film director Terence Davies remembered, hymned and mourned his mother, mixing his own, simple words with songs she sang to him, favourite poems and music. Between the Ears: Intensive Care 2010-04-19T05:45:00Z The male quartet Hudson Shad sang the hymns for context. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z By later changing its lyrics, he transformed “a half-ironic hymn to servility into an anthem of dignified resistance,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Coco’ and ‘The Bachelor Winter Games’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The orchestra closes his hymn with a fateful clang in the vibraphone, a doorbell-like sonority that announces almost every turning point in the opera. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The service is quick and simple: hymn, prayer, sermon, and hymn. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z The piece begins with recorded Mahler and Bartok and ends with members of Serbia’s Byzantine Chorus of Kovilj Monastery singing a hymn, “Eternal Memory to the Virtuous.” Review: Kronos Quartet, in an Emotionally Packed Performance 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Franck’s “Seven Last Words of Christ From the Cross,” with readings and hymns; with soloists and instrumentalists; Michael Crawford, music director. Easter Choral Works in Performance 2010-03-25T20:41:00Z His piano performances are influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk ballads, gospel hymns and old African songs; they’re placid and persistent, gentle but deep. Enveloping Sound of a Serene Soul 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Her father, who had earned his doctorate from Boston University, was a minister at a church where her mother played hymns. Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z A swell of voices singing a high, polyphonous Latin hymn emanates from the open doors of the chapel. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Their cheeks "pinched" by a "chill" that implies something colder than cold weather, the next generation joins in the hymn of blessing to Africa. Poem of the week: Jasmine by John Eppel 2010-07-12T13:28:00Z It begins with soft, breathless gasps that break into a gentle version of the hymn “The Shining Shore” before building to a delirious, swaying swirl of voices. Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z The 1994 film Reality Bites even tried to parlay Ryder’s brand of thrift shop cool into a hymn for the grunge generation, with mixed success. Winona Ryder: from teen rebel to screen mum 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z “I sing in praise of hate, and all its attendant energy. I sing a hymn to the death of love.” Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Mahler sets a ninth-century Latin hymn in the 20-minute first part, and the concluding scene of Goethe's Faust in the hour-long part two, the salvation of Faust's soul by the Eternal Feminine. Mahler's total eclipse of the heart 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z Although he is English, he chose to ground himself deeply in American music — gospel, boogie-woogie, blues, country, early rock ’n’ roll — as much as in England’s traditions of hymns and music hall. Elton John Stays Flashy on the Long Road to Farewell 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Gillette finished the hymn, which she called “They Met to Read the Bible,” at around three in the morning. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The song was a huge hit on the island, and stores across Jamaica reported selling out of the very thing Vybz Kartel was hymning. Vybz Kartel puts Clarks footprint on Jamaica 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z The evening ends with Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” inspired partly by a Shaker hymn that might be considered a different kind of American spiritual. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z And it was not just among the most beloved poems of the German language, but my mother’s hymn to a lost world. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Most Quaker services are "unprogrammed," meaning that there is no sermon, or readings, or hymns. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns his mother sang. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z So often we hear today about “helicopter” parents who, in the words of the old hymn, try with all their might to keep their little “special” darlings, “safe and secure from all alarm.” Reader views on helicopter parents, a parent’s death 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z I heard it as the journey of discarded old American hymn books thrown in the ocean and floating to Bali. The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Some original owners are identifiable, based on initials and coats of arms inscribed alongside snippets of prayers, hymns and biblical quotations. Unlocking the Secrets of Boxwood Miniatures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z There was a hymn I particularly liked called “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, Alleluia.” The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It's a brave fusion, and it mostly works, thanks to the constantly changing dynamics of the music and melodies that are often as sturdy as great hymns. Samson & Delilah: And Straight on Till Morning ? review 2011-01-13T22:41:00Z He learned piano while accompanying his mother's gospel singing, and his first influences were blues, hymns, swing, boogie and the "stride" piano style derived from ragtime. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z Until the current Broadway production, the play has been performed by white actors, with no hymn and therefore no singing. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z He wanted a service of no more than twenty minutes, featuring three speakers and two songs—“and no hymns, no prayers, can’t be in a church,” he said. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Both bird and poem are hymns of glory. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z It's divided into seven movements, the first and last being dominated by Banks' settings of the hymns of Zoroaster, among the oldest surviving pieces of music in human history. Review: Sculpture park a perfect setting for Esoterics' exploration of ancient myth 2010-05-08T18:39:00Z Shocking as it may seem to newer viewers of British TV, there used to be a BBC-ITV ratings battle between shows in which viewers sang hymns and told Bible stories. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Their performance included a hymn to the god Apollo, pieces played at the musical festival of the ancient Pythian Games in Delphi and during wine-laden rituals to the god Dionysus. Ancient Greek sounds transfix audience in Athens 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z What followed was the finale from Ives’s Piano Trio, a 1911 work brimming with nostalgia and rustic tunes, including the traditional hymn “Rock of Ages.” Critic’s Notebook: Tertulia Concert Series at Harding’s and Other Restaurants 2013-05-20T20:57:08Z After that First Symphony — first movement, as it were — the Second came as a sort of scherzo, gamboling through old folk and hymn tunes, with “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean” as anchor. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z But, at least while crooning and dancing to hymns, pop songs and spirituals including “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” “Boys to Men” and “Love Ballad,” so is everyone. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Fox News Channel's chief religion correspondent Lauren Green adores the way Christmas hymns remind us of the true meaning of Christmas. Fox News' Lauren Green: Christmas hymns are important for three key reasons 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Ives quoted from eclectic sources in his sonatas, including Beethoven and American hymns. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z These are secular hymns for the indie kids — one exhortatory song is actually called “Surfer’s Hymn,” as if to pre-empt comparison with Brian Wilson, Panda Bear’s most obvious touchstone — but that shouldn’t limit their appeal. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z I started singing because of church obviously, so singing hymns and stuff like that. Laura Jean Anderson was raised Mormon, but found her identity through music 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “Sweet Fields,” a study in devotional moods set to taped hymns from William Billings, the Shaker tradition and Sacred Harp, is also a marvelous formal construction. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The album, he said simply, “came about because all these hymns and songs were songs that my mother recommended that I play.” Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z In the decades that followed, her works — some 42 temple hymns and three stand-alone poems, including “The Exaltation of Inanna” — were pieced together from more than 100 surviving copies made on clay tablets. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a guitar strums the city’s hymn: “The Girl from Ipanema.” ‘Girl from Ipanema:’ Re-imagining a classic for today’s Rio 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The family begins each hymn verse together, but ends it on slightly different accents — a sign of frayed relations and disharmony. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z There are several hymns in the show, filled with lush lyricism, about the quest for purity in a world of contaminants. Review: The Human Voice Versus the Internet in ‘Octet’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Scott McNulty, the organist at the University Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas, sang the hymn in church on Sunday. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The group gave a beautiful account of Robert White’s setting of “Christe Qui Lux es est Dies,” a Compline hymn, which sets simple plainsong verses into radiantly rotating, polyphonic motion. Music Review: Stile Antico Pays Tribute to ‘Tudor Church Music’ 2014-03-09T20:21:15Z The piece, slightly more than an hour in length, opens with the famous Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” best known to non-Shakers from its use in Martha Graham and Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring.” Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z Yet whereas Caucasian romcoms tend to be hymns to the sanctity of love, Think Like a Man is com rather than rom, with romance being treated as little more than the film's ultimate joke. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z What a thrill it was, upon first hearing Noye's Fludde, to discover that very hymn woven into the stormy climax of his opera. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z The music included the most English of hymns, “Jerusalem.” London Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen Is Honored at a Memorial Service 2010-09-20T17:40:00Z We put contemporary music from the brilliant young English composer Edward Rushton alongside Elgar and Ireland, together with ballads, music hall numbers, Americana, and even a Welsh hymn. Songs for squaddies: the war musical Lads in Their Hundreds 2010-05-19T21:30:00Z The grail is revealed again, and Parsifal climbs the mantle toward truth's shining light as the music returns to Wagner's hymn of love and praise. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z One way to illustrate this is that as a child I sang Christmas carols and hymns. Fox News' Lauren Green: Christmas hymns are important for three key reasons 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z It includes a mass, hymns, psalm settings and other standard religious texts, some of which he set more than once. The Sixteen/Christophers – review 2013-02-13T17:54:10Z “Give Me Something” asks for “something to believe in” as churchy organ chords waft in; “Sweet Architect” melds a torch song and a piano hymn. Emeli Sandé’s ‘Long Live the Angels’ Is Uncluttered and Strong 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z These pastiches — a British-style drinking ditty, a sober hymn, a sincere parlor song — are the most inspired moments in the opera, run through with dissonances and the creaking out-of-tune piano Mr. Maxwell Davies calls for. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z A much larger group prayed and sang hymns as the performer arrived in the evening in the city. Filipino Christian conservatives denounce Lady Gaga concert 2012-05-19T14:37:22Z Her debut album, however, is surprising in its richness: there are strings and choral vocals aplenty, giving much of it the weightiness of hymns. Cold Specks: I Predict a Graceful Expulsion ? review 2012-05-17T20:15:01Z His father ran a sawmill and sang mountain ballads and hymns for his own enjoyment. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z When George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, she wrote a hymn called “We Pray for Youth We Dearly Love.” A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s any different from other national hymns,” he said. The Twists and Turns of ‘La Marseillaise’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z At the start, eight male singers from the Britten Sinfonia Voices, along with two boy acolytes, enter, dressed in monks’ robes and chanting the hymn as they walk across a bed of rocks. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z People sing these hymns with a certain tone to them, and that’s just something that comes so far from the past. In the Picture: Atlanta, Africa and the Past 2011-07-03T00:28:47Z But the visuals that accompany the hymn — billowing curtains of color that reveal glimpses of people dancing at a powwow — anchor us to earth and its pleasures. Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Charles Wesley wrote a hymn that began “Hark how all the welkin rings/Glory to the king of kings”. Coca-Cola didn’t invent Santa ... the 10 biggest Christmas myths debunked 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Then a song begins, an old hymn that sparks the woman’s memory. 'Going to a Place Where You Already Are' is headed toward a really good place 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The record is defined by the spirit of the hymn or the solo performance, a will to calm, condense and purify. New Music: Releases From Velvet Underground, Eric Reed and Volcán 2013-12-16T23:33:13Z The first hymn at her funeral, in 1993, began, “Dear Lord and father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways.” A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It starts off in a factory, and Cvalda is a hymn to that life, with machine noises fulfilling percussive responsibilities. Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results 2010-07-22T22:04:00Z Picking up music from the radio and his church’s gospel hymns, he “got tired of looking a mule in the butt,” as he put it in an interview with The New York Times in 1968. Glen Campbell, Whose Hit Songs Bridged Country and Pop, Dies at 81 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Britten encouraged listeners to sing along during two hymns in the cantata. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z Then there’s Jamey Johnson, one of the album’s main producers, who delivers a properly stiff-backed vocal performance on the hymn “Have Thine Own Way, Lord.” Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Singing from memory, with Mr. Halsey joining in, the chorus members appeared again as individuals, offering the hymn about departure as a graceful farewell to New York. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Gallic nostalgia … Laurain's novel is a hymn to the life of Paris. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z With the exception of the traumatized Carrie’s painful hymn “Palm of God,” the tunes provide more of a feeling for the era than crystallized images of its people and their dilemmas. Storytelling haze shrouds the musical ‘Blackberry Daze’ 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Both women excel at slow-burning hymns, wringing honest feeling from each note. Review | ‘Marie and Rosetta’ offers a handshake intro to an early rock icon 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Hammerstein, whose later Broadway collaboration with Richard Rodgers would produce America’s midcentury secular liturgy in hymns like “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” often said, “I can’t write a song without hope in it.” The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z When the music broke into a wistful melody, like some Moravian folk song, in this context and setting it sounded like a consoling hymn drifting from the church sanctuary. Review: Searching for a Path Out of a Musical Labyrinth 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The “Blessed Assurance” phenomenon is peculiar, perhaps even unheard-of, but the hymn itself is something out of the ordinary. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z It closes with artistic director Karen P. Thomas' own setting of the Baptist hymn: "How Can I Keep from Singing?" Seattle Pro Musica celebrates 40 years together 2012-10-18T20:18:08Z It's "a heavenly hymn to America … a song about inclusion … and loss". Readers recommend: songs about addresses – results 2012-05-24T14:15:23Z The songs and hymns and anthems were technically executed and instantly forgettable. As TV goes, the inauguration was perfunctory and unimpressive, but it had moments 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Both conceived of the hymns as folk music, simple but pliable. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z Time to sing hymns in honor of the workers who perished in the Pullman Strike in 1894. Why You Feel Depressed on Labor Day 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z What he called "a symphony of nature" is a veritable hymn to the universe, whose gradual progess over some 100 minutes takes on a superhuman scale. BBC Now/Otaka ? review 2010-10-04T21:45:00Z It’s a collection of ballads, hymns and waltzes, sung in long arcs of melody with a voice that enfolds its strength in breathy intimacy. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z At the first rehearsal, musicians filed into the Wielki Theater carrying blue and yellow bags; instrument cases covered in peace signs and hearts; and tattered volumes of Ukrainian poems and hymns. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Press’s book is a hymn to the mystery of disobedience. Books of The Times: Eyal Press Considers Courage in ?Beautiful Souls? 2012-02-23T23:21:46Z “Kai’s Song” is an electronic hymn, floating over sustained keyboard chords and digital drum sounds. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “I don’t remember any Sunday, when she was in the kitchen making family dinner, when she wasn’t singing a hymn,” Ms. Tyson said. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z And “Champagne Year” was steely and somber, a cynical hymn. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z Mr. Stone also includes a less familiar newsreel clip of Shostakovich after he composed the Seventh Symphony, which became a hymn to the Siege of Leningrad. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z "Rock of Ages" is also the title of a well-known Christian hymn that dates to the 18th century, with words by Augustus Toplady, an Anglican reverend from England. 'Jeopardy!' question sheds light on 'Rock of Ages' -- the hymns, not the musical 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The pair will dish out the pagan hymn books and goody bags of props to whip up the crowd into a state of strange religious reverie. Clubs picks of the week 2011-02-12T00:05:37Z “Luther wrote hymns and was the first one to develop the hymnal,” which fostered congregant participation, Dr. McQuillen added. Long Before Twitter, Martin Luther Was a Media Pioneer 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Whatever your feelings about Sandra Boynton, it is hard to deny the rhetorical power of her hymn to sleepwear, “Pajama Time.” “Pat the Bunny” is kind of twisted and other lessons I learned from picture books 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The South has become a tyrannical theocracy: Women wear long dresses, the radio plays only church hymns. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Ross fingered a very delicate line that he then looped to accompany himself as he unexpectedly began singing with a pleasing tenor voice the hymn “I’ll Overcome Someday.” Review | Harriet Tubman, the band, blasts out at Kennedy Center 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z One of the hymns I just love is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Fox News' Lauren Green: Christmas hymns are important for three key reasons 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Overcome with emotion, she begins singing an old Protestant hymn, “Blessed Assurance.” Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z There was an inspired touch for the finale, a harp-accompanied hymn to freedom. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z We argue, secondly, that the New Testament requires us to sing, not only psalms, but "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs". The Wee Free should sing their psalms unadorned 2010-05-10T15:01:00Z In church the hymn I loved the most and sang the loudest was Eternal Father Strong To Save. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z On a two-year tour, they performed traditional African songs, Christian hymns and English ballads, drawing large crowds — and an invitation to sing for Queen Victoria at her residence on the Isle of Wight. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Written in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the piece blends snippets of old music, including hymns and fragments of Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin, with a flickering haze of layered sound. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It's refreshingly honest fare; candid, ballsy, and unashamedly entertaining, with the traditional hint of preachiness demanded by this familiar hymn sheet. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up – review 2012-11-25T00:05:26Z This ambitious book is a patchwork quilt of oral histories, photographs, hymns, newspaper accounts, fresh interviews and, foremost, poetry that takes the temperature of race relations in 1969. Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z He draws parallels between a good blast of noise and the soothing balm of hymns. New band of the day ? No 886: Oneohtrix Point Never 2010-10-13T16:44:00Z Farmiga gives Corinne a final speech of reconciliation and farewell, as Higher Ground leaves the viewer with a quiet heroine and the rapturous hymn from which the film takes its title. Higher Ground: When God Doesn't Talk Back 2011-08-25T07:05:00Z You may blush, too, if you are a man who does not relish audience participation, as you will be asked to raise your voice in hymn to the “most merciful Goddess.” Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z These are ancient Indian hymns swaddled in the newfangled synthesizer technology of the time. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z “We used to sing church music — hymns, gospel — at home,” he added. Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z That’s the title of a song that hymns the warming comfort of four different labels of whiskey, to which audience members are encouraged to help themselves. Dave Malloy's ‘Ghost Quartet’ at the Bushwick Starr 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Twice Pärt interrupts “Miserere” with the Dies Irae, the Day of Wrath hymn found in requiem masses and meant to warn the living of the horrors facing sinners. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Zukovsky again led off the variations on the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" with spirited spirituality. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z As dark as “Doxology” can be, it’s no wonder that its title means a hymn of praise. With ‘Doxology,’ Nell Zink Delivers Her Most Ambitious and Expansive Novel Yet 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Inspired by the words of a hymn and knowing she would be delivering the Harvard address, Winfrey, 59, said she found the determination to move forward. Oprah Winfrey tells Harvard graduates to learn from mistakes 2013-05-31T00:49:02Z And there’s even “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” joined to some Lutheran hymns. | 'Border Towns': A Little Bit Dylan, a Little Bit Lots of Other Stuff 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z According to some accounts, the band played the hymn “Nearer, My God, To Thee” to keep spirits up as the passengers boarded lifeboats in the early hours of April 15, 1912. Violin That Played as Titanic Sank To Go On Sale 2013-10-18T14:43:16Z Teachers, administrators and peers often pressured them to sing Christian hymns and assert statements of Christian faith. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Amid a whirlwind of music that draws on Brazilian ceremonial hymns, Indian raga, American and South African jazz, one would be hard-pressed to even find Cherry’s telltale trumpet amid the mosaic. Don Cherry is a deserving giant of jazz. Now his wife, Moki, gets her due as his visionary collaborator. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It is part of Blake's vision of an enchanted and chosen British landscape, recently expressed in the modern hymn using his words that kicked off the Olympic opening ceremony. Jeremy Deller's bouncy castle softens the image of Stonehenge 2012-08-02T16:15:23Z To many believers — and even to many nonbelievers — the story of Christianity seems monumental and unchanging, the stuff of oft-recited creeds and hymns. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z His book Not Working: Why We Have to Stop, is a critique of our state of perpetual busyness, a hymn in praise of doing nothing. Burned out and overwhelmed: should you embrace the joy of no? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The music starts as something like a hymn, with stolid major-key piano chords, then hurtles ahead with galloping drums and pealing guitar chords. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z And we realized in some ways that the hymns are who we would have ourselves be, and the myths are basically who we are, and that they can kind of antiphonally talk to each other. ‘Myths and Hymns,’ a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z While the song could be made to sound like a hymn, it also underscored the great sensitivity of the singer. Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z Gone was the septuagenarian teacher crowding me on a piano bench at my grandmother’s house, extolling the importance of Christian hymns. ‘A better time than any’: Finding joy in music lessons, jams 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The album’s most powerful song, “I Need You” is a naked groan of grief and despair that has the feel of a majestic processional hymn with thick choral textures. Review: ‘One More Time With Feeling’ Listens to Nick Cave’s Darkness 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Even so the disjunction between the text – a hymn of praise – and the apocalyptic trajectory of much of the music is profound. Prom 4: Gothic Symphony ? review 2011-07-18T09:55:53Z A place like the end of the Sixth Symphony is a gigantic, melancholic hymn in their performance, music that sings with barely suppressed grief and rage. Rattle rehabilitates Sibelius in Germany 2010-05-21T15:36:00Z The poem's programme is more metaphysical than illustrative, a depiction of life's trials and tribulations ending with a massive fugue and final hymn of affirmation, complete with offstage female chorus. Suk: Symphony No?1; Ripening 2010-10-02T21:45:00Z This English language hymn expressed a feeling common to many American Jews living as a tiny minority. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z An eminent, plush-toned vocalist and pianist, Mr. Sneed has a broad repertoire, encompassing Christian hymns and modern gospel, jazz standards and Western classical. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The film, a setting of the hymn “God Is Seen,” will be available on the company’s website and YouTube page indefinitely. Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z She told some jokes, then turned things over to a gospel choir, which sang a very nontraditional hymn — about what prayer alone can’t achieve. Trevor Noah Is Amazed at How Fast Trump Cut Ed Gillespie Loose 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z "This movie is nothing more than a hymn to the Zero," said one Internet commentator. Anime master Miyazaki's new film sounds a warning for Japan 2013-08-06T06:50:35Z And yet in post-war England people were still writing hymns like How Great Thou Art. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z The penultimate song is “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” a Christian hymn that Pops taught his daughters in 1950, as they sat around him on the living-room floor. Pops Staples’s Belated Finale 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Other reports said Barbadian pop star Rihanna played the maid of honor as a priest chanted Hindu hymns around a sacred fire. Russell Brand, Katy Perry wed in India 2010-10-23T19:38:00Z And it would have been nice to learn the names of the songs, chants and choral hymns threaded through the sound score. Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z A choir group from South Korea soon breaks into Luther’s famous hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God,” and is quickly drowned out by the drilling noises shaking the foundation of the church itself. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A rough translation of the song — a hymn — suggests it means that all children who want to sing should be able to sing. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The words of the hymn describe both the movement’s precision and its room for error: “without imperfections,” “loving the flaw.” Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Along with his aboriginal legacy, another influence on Gurrumul is clearly the hymns of a missionary church on the island. Review: Gurrumul, an Aboriginal Singer, Makes U.S. Debut 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Like many old folk hymns, the earliest version of “God Is Seen” was based on an existing popular song, which provided its simple, hypnotic melody. Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z She sat through an hour and a half of speeches and hymns. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit to the woman who helped her regain faith in God 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The piece begins in beatific, C-major stasis, as a jaunty hymn gathers momentum in canonic form. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z An abbot and a procession of monks enter, singing a chant-like hymn. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s an oneiric hymn to destruction, an Armageddon anthem — a movie to see, if at all, under the influence. Is Ryan Gosling's Lost River Crazy Brilliant or Just Plain Crazy? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z So often we hear about “helicopter” parents who, in the words of the old hymn, try with all their might to keep their little “special” darlings “safe and secure from all alarms.” Carolyn Hax: Overprotection leaves lessons not learned After the killing of congregants at Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, Obama sang the hymn “Amazing Grace” and also challenged the nation. The power of words in crisis: Who hits mark, and who misses? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The sad, curling melody, like a memory of a hymn, bleeds into the child’s quietly forlorn cry, and Coyote, howling at the moon. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Satorii said the “This Land” melody was “substantially identical” to a Baptist gospel hymn from around the start of the 20th century, known by such titles as “Fire Song.” U.S. judge refuses to dismiss 'This Land is Your Land' lawsuit 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z During her final months, as talk turned to her memorial service, she handed him a list of eight traditional hymns — a poignant commission and in some ways a spiritual bequest. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z The Cats song Memory was one of her favourites, as well as an eclectic selection of hymns and other songs from the shows. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z Eric Church opened the live three-hour broadcast from Nashville, which aired on ABC, with an a cappella rendition of the hymn “Amazing Grace.” Tribute to Las Vegas victims marks CMA Awards as Brooks wins top award 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “Far In,” his first album for the stalwart indie label 4AD, will bring his subtle hymns to what may be his largest audience yet on Friday. Helado Negro at the End of the World 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The man responsible for something of a hymn to London has left – priced out, he says – for a house in Oxford. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z She read old newspapers, political tracts, sermons, memoirs, hymns and census records. Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z I heard about it on Tumblinerb.com , where blogger Andrew Nosnitsky wrote "Cobain is probably rolling over in his grave knowing that his disembodied voice is now the chorus of a generic stoner's hymn." Yelawolf jacks Nirvana's "Marijuana" 2010-11-19T00:01:00Z Ratliff noted that in Mr. Stanley’s a cappella rendition of the hymn “O Death,” the word “death” at one point seemed to encompass six separate notes. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z One example featured on the album is a cherubic hymn that likens the singers to angels. How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia’s Sound Into a Studio 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z A series of her hymns celebrates the women of the Bible; others oppose gun culture; many are about racism. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Before she played a note of Ives, she asked the audience to sing hymns under the supervision of Jan Swafford, an esteemed Ives biographer. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z Through forlorn analog-keyboard tones — sometimes sounding like a steel drum, or a Wurlitzer organ — Mr. Rende’s playing evoked children’s songs, hymns, chorales, baroque inventions, Robert Wyatt dirges, and pentatonic melodies from Japanese or Ethiopian music. Thomas Morgan’s New Trio Plays at Seeds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z He’s fastidious but not without soul or whimsy, as he shows in “All’s Not Lost,” one of the oldest songs here, a hymn of romantic awakening tinged with the bleary mortification of a hangover. Playlist : For Longtime Artists, Dawning of a New Day 2011-07-17T01:30:27Z He’s invented a sweet hymn that becomes Sister Helen’s leitmotif. Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z SM Prescott’s tapestries use terms from Christian hymns and liturgy to exalt trans people, sex workers, drug users and others who are not always welcome at church. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The hymn is believed to date from the 13th century. 'Jeopardy!' question sheds light on 'Rock of Ages' -- the hymns, not the musical 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a hymn to life, if you will — to live in a place where living is virtually impossible.” Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z Monteverdi’s writing in the “Vespers” is organized around a dazzling array of what, for him, were old and new forms: hymn, Gregorian chant, polyphony, operatic monody, arioso and embellished virtuoso singing. At the Armory, Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ Are Newly Immersive 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Audiences especially connected to her version of a gospel hymn, “Blessed Assurance,” Washington said. Less pomp, more art for 2015 Kennedy Center Honors 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z That means that when she is with Alwa, she’s already planning to flee from this place, to go to Paris, and when he sings his hymn to her body she knows that she’s got him. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Or his replacing the White Stripes' aggressive "Icky Thump" with Nick Cave's pensive hymn "There Is a Kingdom" as Aquaman's introductory anthem. Oh the humanity! "Zack Snyder's Justice League" wasn't necessary, but it brought what Whedon lacked 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Weber once wrote that the works were “hymns to the infinite possibilities, both physical and spiritual, of hue and light.” David Zwirner Is Selected to Display the Works of Josef Albers 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “In playing a hymn,” he said, “he would be able to express the meaning of an individual word in such a poignant way that I would just immediately tear up.” Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The narrative explores the relationship between song and spirituality on the Columbia Plateau, east of the Cascades, and is enhanced by numerous photographs and translations of old Indian hymns. Local Books: 'Reamde' in paperback, Indian studies, finance 2012-05-21T19:03:03Z A crowd of a hundred paraded the image through the streets, stopping at every church and singing hymns, rousing what is otherwise a sleepy place. Footsteps: A Remote Colombia City That Really Does Exist 2014-04-30T14:56:57Z This is a dance of death, filled with intimations of mortality, that's also a profoundly moving hymn to life. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z Spirituals arose because enslaved Africans assimilated English hymns and made them their own. Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z E Nesbit was a socialist and an activist, who wrote political hymns as well as creating a new genre of children's fiction. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z Their lyrics make everyday events the starting point for existential ruminations, often dark ones; the tunes can be hymns or foot-stompers. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z As on “Be Still,” there are soft-spoken interpretations of traditional hymns — the spirituals “Deep River” and “There Is a Balm in Gilead” — without a vocalist. Review: Dave Douglas’s ‘Brazen Heart’ Tries to Transcend Grief 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z A group of Arrivals, singing a blurry version of a religious hymn, comes ashore amid a blast of electronic noise and quivering flute. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The hymn near the end accelerated in a way that released rather than built tension. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-19T21:44:32Z And in its most delicious moments, the score proves one of the all-time most irresistible hymns to music. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Coming at the close of the weekend, it was a perfectly Sibelian gesture, a hymn in the midst of discord. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z But the songs of the established churches are often centuries old; the Church of Glee turns Broadway melodies and new hits into instant hymns. Glee The 3-D Concert Film: The Church of Latter-Day Songs 2011-08-12T09:45:00Z That started what Whitehead called an “archaeological expedition” — searching for the hymns and plainchants Bach intended to set but that have since disappeared or gone out of fashion. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Britannica reports that religious observers celebrate Hanukkah with Scripture readings, Psalm recitations, alms donations and hymn singing. How people celebrate Hanukkah around the world 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z By the end, the show is operating both as a masterpiece of silliness and a hymn to camaraderie and carefree youth. Pappy's: Last Show Ever – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T14:26:35Z This new music startled the jazz world by splicing the sounds of township dancehalls and shebeens, African Methodist hymns of Brand's Cape Town childhood, and the American jazz of Ellington and Thelonious Monk. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z His is the comedy of misadventure, a hymn to human incompetence. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Blaxploitation hymned violence, sexual incontinence and narcissistic posturing as the black man's route to self-realisation. Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite may be witty, but is it racist? 2010-08-16T11:25:00Z During “Constellation,” it emerges by surprise four minutes into the somber hymn. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It moves from an evocation of hymns to the band music of Henry Hall. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z They held hands or placed their palms on a table, then fell silent or uttered a prayer or sang a hymn. The Victorian Women Who Pierced Glass Ceilings by Speaking to the Dead 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z But certainly there were huge get-togethers in parks and pavilions with thousands of people raising their arms in hymn singing and speaking in tongues and so on. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z A Punk Prayer is propaganda that leaves you in no doubt which hymn book you're supposed to sing from. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-07-06T23:06:17Z Teodor Currentzis conducted the orchestra and chorus of the Opéra National de Lyon, the chorus being especially notable in a sublime Tchaikovsky liturgical hymn added by Mr. Sellars near the end. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The music for the service reflects much of the couple's planning for the event which will include Welsh hymns illustrating their connection to Wales. William and Kate "deeply touched" by well-wishers 2011-04-28T08:58:46Z “Woodstock” was chopped up into staccato phrases, turning that hymn to flower children into a percussive showpiece. Tierney Sutton Reimagines Joni Mitchell Songs 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As the ’80s began, music became a private pursuit for Glenn-Copeland, who issued tranquil electronic hymns on tiny batches of self-made cassettes, if at all. Listeners Found Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It Was Time. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z There was the gospel hall where he and his friends sang hymns when they weren’t “getting kicked out for fighting about.” In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The concert, which includes pieces ranging from ancient hymns to 20th century songs, comes on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in what is now Turkey. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z No one was ever going to build AG Rizzoli's bizarre and gargantuan architectural designs, which he often thought of as portraits of people as well as rapturous hymns to his own elation. Far-out show celebrates world of outsiders 2013-06-10T17:26:04Z Household routines included hymn singing, piano practicing and no cursing. They Adapted ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ and Their Personal Beliefs 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z More subtly, Margaret's switch from Old to New Testament values at the play's end is accompanied by a softly sung hymn. The Amen Corner – review 2013-06-12T12:21:51Z Mourners have been instructed to wear masks and observe social distancing inside the chapel, and not to join in when a four-person choir sings hymns. UK military prepares for big role in Prince Philip’s funeral 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z This is Sally as a flaming flapper, the kind hymned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and embodied by the young Joan Crawford in silent movies. Emma Stone Takes Over in ‘Cabaret’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The hymn that arrives in the wake of that explosion was less forceful here than humble, aware of its own fragility. Review: The Minnesota Orchestra’s White Light and White Heat 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The chorus of the Vienna State Opera is powerfully eloquent in the shining, unaccompanied second-act hymn for the imprisoned Frankish knights longing for their homeland. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Patmore hymns imaginative perception of local realities at the expense of scientific discovery: the reverse position is today's default. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z And so I did in close, bright harmony; we all did, with bells from the steeple ringing 5 o’clock just as we were finishing with another hymn, “May I Be Still.” A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z He is best known for his 1971 recording of Christian hymn Morning Has Broken, a top 10 hit in both the UK and US. Cat Stevens to play US concerts 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The organizers had expected 60 people, but 300 or so showed up to sing “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “We Shall Overcome” and other restorative hymns. Yoga? Weaving? Vigils? The Search for Postelection Calm 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z As the Shaker hymn proclaims, ’tis the gift to be simple, perhaps even more so in these times that are anything but. A New Set of Tastemakers Finds Inspiration in Shakers 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z On new tracks that sound like old hymns, she sings about the people she considers her heroes: Dr. King, of course, but also John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson and the Chicks. Iris DeMent Is Worried About the World. So She Made Another Album. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Her second album is full of harrowing folk hymns about spiritual woe sung with the determination of someone who’s triumphing nonetheless. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Characters Finding Their Voices by Singing in the Choir At the all-black Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, the official school song is the Presbyterian hymn “Trust and Obey.” In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z The chorus just lost an abiding voice in Behnke’s, but the hymn continues. Perspective | Behnke’s closure is a reminder of the tight rope that many garden centers face 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s a hymn of earthly transcendence and spiritual succor, like much of what follows, including “Blessed Assurance,” “Going Home” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” Playlist: New CDs: Albatrosh, Trio M, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z Armed forces bands will play hymns and classical music before the funeral service, Inside the chapel, Royal Marine buglers will sound “Action Stations,” an alarm that alerts sailors to prepare for battle. UK military prepares for big role in Prince Philip’s funeral 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z So, too, did the rousing Sinead O’Connor performance, “The Gospel Sessions,” which featured this idiosyncratic Irish performer backed by veteran gospel performers for a concert of classic spirituals and hymns. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z Much of his art is a sort of hymn to obsolescence. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z We open with a hymn, Lord I Lift Your Name on High, and Pastor Norm drums softly on the table. Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z In Triptych, novelist Jonathan Littell – author of The Kindly Ones – attempts a hymn to the matter of Bacon's art: these three short, luminous essays are exercises in paying attention to paint itself. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z Did Tipper ever listen to that strange hymn at the end of “Darling Nikki”? You have to play it backward—hallmark, in other realms, of the Satanic. Darling Nikki 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z "Mostly Shaker hymns, because they were about leaving the world of flesh and blood and going into the arms of a savior, and a mother, and going to a golden land." Natalie Merchant: 'Sometimes I am so moved, I can't even sing' 2012-06-13T22:02:05Z It’s a hymn of gratitude that arrives with sonic undercurrents of dread. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The all-conquering love hymned in the classic musical was beginning to look like an increasingly flimsy fiction. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Some sing hymns, pray or silently hold candles. ‘Black-Eyed Susans’ is a masterful thriller that shouldn’t be missed 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z And then it becomes a “we,” a weighty pause before the chorus erupts behind her, a riot of handclaps and percussion, an anthem, a hymn. Ripely Pine: A New Album That Details What It’s Like to be a Twenty-Something in 2013 2013-02-22T14:30:13Z Those pieces would benefit a lot from re-editing from the original manuscripts so that we get the right notes and the right words and the right stanzas from the right hymns and so on. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Berlin soon deleted his anti-interventionist verse, leaving only a simple hymn asking for guidance and praising America’s beauty. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The alluring work is a fantasy on the hymn “Shall We Gather at the River,” with the tune woven through a canvas of repetitive figurations. Music Review: 13 Hours of Sounds and Psychedelia 2011-06-24T21:33:31Z It hymned the "conservative" subtext of The Good Life and dismissed The Young Ones as "terribly dated". Grieve for The Good Life? Not this Young One 2013-03-03T18:59:01Z The piece ends with a return of the hymn, but this time, as in something by Ives, pensive strands of a distant melody are heard. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z Every step that goes into the intricate process of preparing the prasad is synchronized with the chanting of the five banis, or hymns. The sweet Sikh ritual of karah prasad 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z On Monday, Akipa focused on his own explorations, including arrangements of traditional hymns cited as “Dakota Air” in the reservations’ missionary hymnals, which sought to reconvert appropriated music into something traditional. Review | Lakota music gets short shrift in concert meant to celebrate it 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The context may be new, but Sheff still showcases his gift for writing songs that harness both the glow of poetry and the gravity of hymns. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Our little group was going to sing some of the same melodies and hymns as the pilgrims of centuries ago. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Women and men sat together, sang hymns together, even in choirs. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Some passages evoke hymns; others, like the snowball fight, take a jazzy, irreverent turn. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Eventually, the route leads home: to a mountain gospel hymn. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z But he did croon several bars of the gospel hymn "Amen" while channeling the persuasiveness of a shuck-and-jive televangelist. Kid Rock's beefy, patriotic riffs fill United Center 2011-02-27T16:32:00Z Mr. Greene found portraits of Blind Tom, concert ads, witness descriptions of his strange leaps and rambling speeches during shows, and sheet music for songs that he composed partly based on street sounds and hymns. Recalling Blind Tom, an Autistic Pianist Born to Slavery 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Also, Bennett knows whereof he speaks; when someone who sang with Ella Fitzgerald takes the time to hymn your praises, listen up. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The hymn was not in the original play, however. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity? Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Carrie Underwood takes fans to church with her first holiday album “The Gift,” a set of hymns and traditional Christmas classics that invoke the spiritual and religious themes of the season. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Not strictly a summer film, but a hymn to the joys of sweat, sex and reverie in a lush forest setting. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Classical music and hymns are replacing rock and pop on BBC Radio Cymru as the deadline for a rights deal with leading Welsh-language musicians passes. Hymns replace pop on Radio Cymru 2013-01-01T11:35:28Z It would be an incredible misfortune if The Harmonies were unable to release this very special non-album version of the song that the WI is most noted for, and one of England's best-loved hymns. Women's Institute hunts for 4,000 chorus singers 2010-10-19T17:39:00Z The words rang like a hymn across the Ngong hills, echoing through the scrubby town, as small children clung to their mothers and joined in the chorus. Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa 2012-09-03T15:00:33Z That show’s grand theatrical summation became a solemnly joyful, quasi-religious hymn of praise that fused Broadway and gospel traditions. Billy Porter Opens the American Songbook Series 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Ives’s Third Symphony is a generous work of modest proportions, inclusive in its embrace of hymns, folk music and dances, yet highly idiosyncratic in how they are put together. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z She gave the grand, Mormon Tabernacle-esque hymn “You’ll Never Walk Alone” everything it asked for, and those audience members who had not previously been digging in their pockets for a Kleenex were doing so now. A Rousing “Carousel” for Singers and Dancers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Listen, for example, to his barroom hymn to mothers who never bothered to wed the fathers of their children. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z A Bach violin composition and the Christian hymn "How Great Thou Art" are also featured. 'Never Givin' Up' recites MLK's 'Letter' to call for justice 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The Met’s chorus filled the processional hymn scene with affecting sincerity. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song" opens with a gospel hymn sung by a familiar voice. . . that of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., its creator, host and narrator. PBS' ambitious & fraught "Black Church" takes a tour of America's complex history, music and faith 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z A brief reference to Bob Dylan's "With God On Our Side" isn't enough to pull the hymns out of their sleepy doldrums. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z But the polished oratory interspersed with performances — Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks delivering rousing versions of patriotic songs and religious hymns — elevated the proceedings, in just the right way. Perspective | America yearns for an era of good feeling. The inaugural ceremony launched one. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The 14 songs performed included some of the most popular and patriotic songs of Russia and the Soviet Union, including a hymn celebrating the country's victory in World War II. Russian choir of 4,335 performs in St. Petersburg 2013-05-26T13:06:09Z And for some reason out of this Upper West Side Jew comes all of this music to these hymn lyrics. ‘Myths and Hymns,’ a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Human fragility is a recurring theme in the music of David Lang, and “battle hymns,” an almost hourlong collection of choral songs about war, is no exception. David Lang’s ‘Battle Hymns’ Are Performed on the Intrepid 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Plugging a guitar into an amplifier and basically singing religious hymns all night. Kiss: monsters of rock 2012-07-12T19:30:00Z A recurring little flourish in the piano’s right hand keeps “Forward Into Light” from settling into just another hymn. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z Over the course of his lifetime, Elahi established a repertory of some 75 modes and melodic genres and some 100 melodies and hymns, which underpinned his improvisations. Ostad Elahi, a Tanbur Master, Is Celebrated at Met Museum 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Foster's latest and most ambitious hymn to the aerial view is his design and promotion of an airport island, floating in the Thames estuary. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z Mac imagined a hymn to people erased by history: Native Americans, African-Americans, Jewish immigrants. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1968, he began filming the documentary “Oratorio for Prague,” intended as a hymn to the new artistic freedoms under the reformist government of Alexander Dubcek. Jan Nemec, Czech Filmmaker Known for Works of ‘Dream Realism,’ Dies at 79 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Church hymns, folk songs and the patriotic jingles of military and marching bands filled the streets. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Ives assumed that any audience in his day would recognize the hymns when hearing his symphony. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Its great song "Dark Star" is one of the jewels in the Dead's catalog, and Saturday's version was equal parts hymn and meditation. The Grateful Dead jam in mostly perfect harmony in Santa Clara 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The German hymn commonly known as “Lo, how a rose, e’er blooming” has long been a beloved Christmas carol. Review: In Time for the Holidays, Radiant Praetorius Carols 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z In the 14th century, the feast became a popular holiday, generating customized sermons, plays, hymns, works of art and processional gatherings. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z That, in a sense, is the permanent paradox of A Chorus Line: it hymns the individuals who are finally turned into figures of glittering anonymity. A Chorus Line – review 2013-02-20T14:59:00Z It was Easter Sunday, so many locals in suits and dresses were attending services at the Waldensia Baptist Church, singing hymns audible from the roadside. In Jamaica, Running in Usain Bolt’s Footsteps 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And see, most of these songs were all hymns. Q&A with Leslie Jordan: Why he made a country album, how Capote saved his life and spending time in the ‘pokey’ with Robert Downey Jr. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead of revising old work, she decided to write a new hymn. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “When Bad Does Good,” written and produced by Cornell, is a hymn and an argument, begun by sustained organ chords and building to a rock chorale. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z It is a song of farewell for the things that can never be again — and a hymn of hope that beauty will emerge in the newly broken world, anyway. Forget Bruno. “Dos Oruguitas” is the "Encanto" song we really need 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z The gospel hymn “When the Saints Go Marching In” was performed with the gusto of a Dixieland band. Senior, too, pleases fans at Harry Connick Jr. show 2013-08-11T00:24:16Z Many of her hymns respond to current events. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z However, more than 84% of funeral directors say hymns or classics are declining in popularity quicker than any other music type. Monty Python tune tops funeral songs 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In a nod to late musical giants Ray Charles and Louis Armstrong, he performed "I Got a Woman" and the gospel hymn "When the Saints Come Marching In", ending just before 3:00 a.m. Hugh Laurie, Dr John, Trombone Shorty in New Orleans tribute 2012-07-10T13:38:34Z "I think William deliberately included his mother in the day with the music," she said, pointing out that the initial hymn was also played at Princess Diana's funeral. WEDDING WATCH: Kate tries out her royal wave 2011-04-29T11:33:17Z At one point, he sings the hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” with heartbreaking earnestness. Danny Lyon’s Camera Seeks Truth in Marginalized Lives 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Her 1970 version of Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man – originally seen as a hymn to female subservience – now gets a post-feminist update. Candi Staton ? review 2011-07-11T15:37:17Z At Seau's home, across the street from the Pacific Ocean, his mother sat on driveway next to a coroner's van and sang a song or hymn. Former NFL star Junior Seau dies in apparent suicide 2012-05-03T11:01:00Z Michael Penn’s first song in 15 years, “A Revival,” swells from modest parlor-piano hymn to robust chorus as it reflects, not so obliquely, on privilege, hubris, narcissism and the long-awaited restoration of a “commonweal.” Burna Boy’s Cry for Nigeria, and 9 More New Songs 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z The group enjoyed immediate success with a huge 1958 hit, the secular hymn “For Your Precious Love,” with Butler on lead vocals. The Impressions keep on pushing 2012-06-28T15:58:00Z In Rachmaninoff’s 1915 a cappella setting of psalms and hymns, the chorus is sublimated into a translucent vessel designed to gently color and set aglow the words of the Russian Orthodox liturgy. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s a hyped-up, four-letter hymn to the obsessiveness of the ink-stained muckraker, a profession at which Hecht and MacArthur toiled in happy squalor in Chicago before ascending to celebrity as writers for Broadway and Hollywood. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z After a spiritual discourse, Ms. Coltrane would begin to play a massive Hammond organ, cuing the singing of transcendental hymns called bhajans. Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z With toy instruments, sleigh bells, cracking whips and a stirring instrumental setting of the hymn “Adeste Fideles,” “Santa Claus” was an innovative, seamless single-movement narrative, in the vein of Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Where Breaking Bad and The Sopranos unpick the dark heart of the American dream, Friday Night Lights is an optimistic hymn to the nation that wrought it. Why Friday Night Lights is one of the best US shows of recent years 2012-02-13T11:46:00Z If she tells her audience that she’s starting a religion, she needs a full hymnal even if she’s going to sing only one hymn. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The flash of inspiration, the hymn to the beloved at the easel, are usually the stuff of cheap melodrama rather than serious exploration. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage That's more entertaining than the pastiche hymns he sings, whose intermittently effective lyrics too often rely on "Santa drinking meths"-style shock tactics. Merrie Hell – review 2012-12-13T18:15:57Z She penned “Cloudy Day” — a folk hymn that longs for family and friends in the way spirituals celebrate the afterlife — on an outcropping along Oregon’s rocky coast, staring northwest back toward Alaska. After 43 Years, Mossy Kilcher’s Folk Songs for Alaska Get a Second Life 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It opens with a ghostly hymn about the possibilities afforded by an “Apple appliance.” Frank Ocean's Visual Album Endless Is the Year's Most Curious Work in Progress 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It's a little creepy-feeling to say how much one enjoyed Christopher Bailey's hymn to the battlefield at Burberry, a fine and disciplined show that was like an extended military exercise. 2010-01-20T00:05:00Z At the age of 5 he started writing out hymns for his father, who ran a tense, strict and sometimes violent household. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z The other royal wedding hymns are "Love divine, all loves excelling" and "Guide me, O thou great redeemer," which was also the final hymn at Princess Diana's funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1997. Royal wedding to feature composer Paul Mealor 2011-04-28T15:46:06Z The freestyle is molasses-slow and hits hardest between the beats — a hymn of desperation and menace. The Playlist: Desiigner and Fergie Aren’t Done Just Yet 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Sweet Core, Steely Edge To follow Billy Joel’s sober hymn, “And So It Goes” with the frantic chromatic babble of Clifford Brown and Jon Hendricks’s “Joy Spring” is quite a leap for any singer. Music Review: Karrin Allyson at Birdland 2012-06-10T21:49:33Z They laugh, perched on a sofa with the friendly restraint of colleagues 18 years apart who haven’t seen each other in ages but are keen to sing from the same hymn sheet. 'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Decas sets the standard with his opening hymn to the momentum. | 'The Momentum': Life Is an Existential Cabaret, My Friend 2011-02-09T01:42:27Z Intertwining “The Circle Game” with Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Waters of March” transformed a merry-go-round contemplation of the life cycle into an exalted hymn to the natural world. Music Review: Jessica Molaskey Sings Joni Mitchell for American Songbook 2014-02-21T22:16:37Z With its surging rendition of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” Aaron Copland’s 1944 ballet “Appalachian Spring” is famous for comforting its audience. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z The service at the evangelical megachurch that has taken over the Mark Taper Forum begins with a rousing hymn performed by a large choir ready to raise the roof in praise of the Lord. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z This novel brims with the oldest hymns and chants. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Skittish rhythmic figures roil the orchestral textures, and an episode of thick, wailing harmonies sounds like some church hymn put through a time warp. Music Review: Leader and Players, Deeply Bound 2010-12-16T23:06:23Z A gospel choir sang alleluias along with the stately hymns; non-Christian religious figures were given roles in the highly Protestant ceremony. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z It shifts between the topical and the symbolic, factuality and abstraction, the same way its soundtrack alternates protest chants, pop songs and hymns. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z Like most conversations with Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways” covers complex territory: trances and hymns, defiant blues, love longings, comic juxtapositions, prankster wordplay, patriotic ardor, maverick steadfastness, lyrical Cubism, twilight-age reflections and spiritual contentment. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Her hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance and enduring love in dark times employs a character of ancient magical realism, the golem. Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, in Ives’s work the comfortable past — parlor songs and marching bands, church hymns and genteel poetry — is seen as if from a misty distance, both recognized and reinvented. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z It means to be an oddball hymn to an oddball, the kind of play in which you ask of the misfit hero, Is he crazy or does he see more clearly than everyone else? | 'Love Song': Not Much to Steal but a Heart 2011-04-17T22:22:46Z There are times when this city feels like the urban equivalent of a symphony by Charles Ives, a great, clashing, dissonant study in unresolved, competing hymns to the past. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z One is the 18th century Christian hymn “Holy God, we Praise thy Name,” perhaps a natural choice for the daughter of a Protestant pastor. Pomp, punk and pandemic see Merkel out of office 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Accordingly, he sets this piece in Las Vegas, that gaudy hymn to illusion, and the surrounding desert at the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z He stopped the hymn, glared, waited and sneered, “Where’s the coughing now?” before resuming with a brief coda. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z A small touch panel allows them to choose specific hymns. A Eureka Moment, Recreated in Film 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z At the same time, he said, hymns often cross denominational and cultural lines. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Some proper hymns were sung, but renditions of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” were delivered just as reverently. John McCain’s Funeral Mourned Americanism’s High Priest and Rebuked Its Chief Heretic 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z In the nineteenth century B.C., when a powerful pharaoh named Senwosret III expanded Egyptian control into Nubia, he commissioned hymns that, like Shabola’s song, addressed the pharaoh in the voice of everyday Egyptians: My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z His recording of the hymn “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” sold 500,000 copies when it was released in 1959, and several of his nearly 100 albums became gold records. Pete Fountain, who kept Dixieland swinging in New Orleans, dies at 86 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Lewis vocally embraces "Being Alive," Sondheim's impassioned hymn to marriage. A revelatory revue examines the work of Sondheim 2010-04-23T01:31:00Z Their marriage is celebrated in the exuberant number “In the Sounding,” with its text drawn from an 1886 hymn that speaks of a joyful reunion in heaven “by the crystal sea.” Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z This was the setup for “Whirring,” the band’s best tune, a hymn to the ineffable. Music Review: The Joy Formidable at Terminal 5 2012-04-01T18:50:59Z But he soon found his real calling and spent most of the rest of his life in the Shiva temple at Chidambaram, writing and singing passionate hymns. For Asia Week, Gods, Saints and Flying Heroes 2010-03-18T20:58:00Z The Lyris' contribution was Ben Johnston's String Quartet No. 4 "Amazing Grace," in which the hymn goes through transformations in three different tuning systems. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Beyond the portico is a hypostyle hall whose columns are inscribed with sacred texts and hymns. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z This gem of text from the Hindu hymns of the Rig Veda — “There was neither nonexistence nor existence then” — rises through unrelated but pleasingly consonant parallel harmonies, familiar from minimalism, but with an earworm catchiness. Review | A giant meditation on creation fills the Kennedy Center Concert Hall 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z He couldn’t find the right page in his hymn book because the paper bookmark kept slipping out. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z The songs are waltzes and hymns and marches, centered on piano or guitar, strummed or fingerpicked. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The film opens with a voice-over passage from the Book of Job and ends with a hymn. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z That evening after the meditation, when Frédéric picked up his guitar to play the hymn before the Mass, instead of “Alleluia,” he played the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z Cantus fares better in William Walker’s foursquare hymn “Wondrous Love,” from “The Southern Harmony,” with a vigorous, mostly straightforward a cappella account. Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z “Peace, like a river,” goes the old hymn. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z In her playful “Its Motion Keeps,” with words from a traditional hymn, the chorus sputters short phrases, building to the line “Time, like the tide, its motion keeps.” Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z But when people started singing the gospel hymn “Amen,” she was put at ease, and went splashing down the length of the shallow pool. How a 50-year-old photo mystery was solved. Well, at least half of it. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The Final Jeopardy answer was: "A Christian hymn and a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical." 'Jeopardy!' question sheds light on 'Rock of Ages' -- the hymns, not the musical 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z She delivers the babies and looks after the old folk, always with a kind smile and a hummed hymn. ‘The Killing of Sister George,’ at the Beckett Theater 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Judging by your experience it sounds as though the heightened emotional atmosphere isn’t just energising the mourners to sing the hymns more fervently. My lover has left me at the age of 77, and I really miss her 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet the crew made it back to the harbor at Bari, where the townsfolk and clergy processed, singing joyous hymns, to greet the saint. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z “It’s one of those low-church Protestant hymns central to fundamentalist worship, black and white.” Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z Though composed in a formal structure, the piece unabashedly draws from seemingly disparate styles: the tango, propulsive jazzy dance rhythms, Oriental-tinged melodic writing and even explicit references to the sacred Latin hymn “Dies Irae.” Review: New York Philharmonic Explores Israeli Musical Identity 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Cameron shows them performing the hymn "Nearer, My God, To Thee." The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But he came on early because we were filming the scene in the church with the hymn and we needed people to sing on camera. "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Thomson’s score surrounds this surreal pageant with music out of Anytown, U.S.A.: a quilt of ditties, hymns and state fair brass fanfares that feels as if it had emerged from deep in the American imagination. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z According to a government spokesman, the piece represented “a hymn to humanity, peace and international understanding.” At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—a hymn to souls too carnal to grow old, too secular to give praise, and too baffled to mock faith—recently turned thirty. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The film is regularly punctuated with quasi hymns by the Canadian indie rock band Bruce Peninsula that dramatize Walter’s torment. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z Garrison Keillor says his mother died Friday at her home in Minnesota "with her children around her holding her hand and singing hymns." Grace Keillor, mother of Garrison Keillor, dies 2012-07-27T21:38:08Z The songs put dance beats, rock guitars, piano hymns, string orchestras and hip-hop loops at the disposal of her voice, all leading to those leather-lunged payoffs. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z Mendelssohn insisted the tune should never be used for religious purposes, Gant said, but 15 years later, William Cummings, a British organist, took the melody and added words from a Methodist hymn. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z We will sing hymns that congregants in churches in the Bible belt will also be singing that day, and we will sing them without fear, or self-loathing, or shame. Say gay 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z He recalled Ives in the studio “vigorously playing hymns on the piano and singing at the top of his voice.” Ives’s Study Resurrected, Inch by Inch 2014-03-05T22:36:25Z “Walking Song,” a hymn to companionship, takes on a haunting metaphorical resonance when played as an elegy. Movie Review: ‘Sing Me the Songs,’ a Tribute to Kate McGarrigle 2013-06-25T22:29:46Z “His mind was singularly capacious, filled with baseball statistics, detective novels, mathematical formulas, vintage wines, German hymns, you name it,” Mr. McClatchy wrote. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z But hymns weren’t enough to keep people from ruminating on the question: Outside the courthouse, Minneapolis weighs the meaning of the Chauvin trial 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Maybe it will be called Magic Moments and it will be a merry hymn of praise to muscular-rock Satanists. New band of the day ? No 794: Myles Cooper 2010-05-25T16:23:00Z His music is run through with the church hymns, patriotic tunes and marches he heard while learning music from his father, a small town Connecticut bandmaster. Review: Jeremy Denk and Stefan Jackiw’s Lessons in Ives’s Nostalgic Sonatas 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Finally, the poem is a hymn to mutual feeling, understanding, balance, constancy. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z Two of the credited writers, he says, had probably never even been to West Virginia when they hymned the beauty of its valleys and rivers. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Most of her output was, we fear, interminable marriage hymns for the young ladies in her entourage. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Two more hymns, “Shall We Gather at the River?” and “Nearer My God to Thee,” prefaced a frolicsome account of Ives’s more playful Sonata No. 4. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z The a cappella Christmas hymns sung by students that night were lovely, but the true music of Coimbra is fado, the melancholy music whose local version differs significantly from the better-known Lisbon style. Frugal Traveler Blog: A Portuguese University Town, Both Familiar and Foreign 2012-01-03T21:32:27Z But the ukulele was a byproduct of Portuguese influx, and many revered Hawaiian songs were influenced by Protestant hymns. Music: Dear Grammy, Is It Hawaiian Enough? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Gareth Pugh’s spring 2015 collection, unveiled in New York in September, is a kind of hymn to morbidity, his runway populated by pale models in hooded sackcloth or spooky black gowns trailing weeds. The Subject of Death Plays a Part in Popular Culture 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The hymn he chooses to sing is All Things Bright and Beautiful, and he sings it loud and long. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z While the album starts with its thumping, upbeat songs, the concert took its time, starting with folky acoustic ballads, a somber hymn and Steve Reich Minimalist patterns. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z Listeners were encouraged to sing along with the hymns and with the chorales throughout the Passion, rendered in English translations, provided in the program along with the music in four parts. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z The song combines the uplift of hymn with the vigorous urgency of a national anthem, exemplifying the public-spirited preoccupations that have led James to let his marriage to Candida take care of itself. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z But he breaks into an explicit hymn to Venus, which exposes both his erotic secrets and a world of extreme sexual experience beyond the comprehension of prudish Thuringian society. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z The hymn will be performed at the University of Manchester at 14:30 BST on Thursday. 'Lost' Beethoven hymn unearthed 2012-10-24T23:51:27Z Fortunately, order is restored when the singer once again has the album all to herself on the closing hymn, “Among Angels.” Album review: Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' 2011-11-18T17:35:00Z At one point, Tines had planned to sing a gospel hymn, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow,” and segue into the beginning of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Even so, their fifth album opens with a joyous rebuttal of such cynicism – a surging, synth-driven hymn to the possibilities of pop music. Hot Chip: In Our Heads – review 2012-06-09T23:05:31Z We can probably rule out Prince William’s next keynote speech being a hymn to his father entitled OK BOOMER. Katy Perry offers no respite for the embattled royals 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Be sure to watch to the end of the video below to see Colbert dance and sing one of his favorite hymns. Here's What Stephen Colbert Would Ask Pope Francis 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The music is equally throwback; the closing hymn, “On the Mountain’s Top Appearing,” is from 1802. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z She also sang for the film, delivering a soulful rendition of the gospel hymn "His Eye is on the Sparrow." Drowning killed Houston but drugs took high toll 2012-03-23T12:28:08Z Other musicians have their own favorite corners: a juicy chord here, an archaic lyric there, or a moment in which standard congregational hymns can be spiced up with a touch of chromatic alteration. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The soprano Laura Claycomb sang luminously and gracefully in the fifth and final movement, the setting of the “Resurrection” hymn by the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, with additional verses by Mahler. Music Review | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Carnegie Hall Concerts Mix Mahler and Kissine 2010-03-29T04:39:00Z Mr. Barnes is no stranger to such site-specific spectacles: for the Collegiate Chorale, he produced the New York premiere of David Lang’s “battle hymns” at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum last year. Gotham Chamber Opera Names Edward Barnes Executive Director 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Garrison Keillor says his mother stayed in the house, "entertaining her family, playing Scrabble, reading, singing hymns and praying for her loved ones." Grace Keillor, mother of Garrison Keillor, dies 2012-07-27T21:38:08Z The family often came together to sing hymns. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The timing is fortunate for “Amazing Grace,” a Broadway musical about the unusual life story of the man who wrote the lyrics for that classic hymn. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z After more than a century of singing psalms in church in unaccompanied monody, there's a move afoot to introduce hymns and instruments into 'Wee Free' services. The Wee Free should sing their psalms unadorned 2010-05-10T15:01:00Z When Tyson performed "The Trip to Bountiful" on Broadway, audiences couldn't help but sing along with her to the hymn "Blessed Assurance." Kennedy Center Honors Gala salutes five legends of film, music and stage 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z “I Know A Place” was never supposed to be a funeral hymn. Hear MUNA's Uplifting New Song for the LGBTQ Community 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z And, sometimes, he takes the stage at the Gaslight with earnest ballads, fishermen laments, hymns to the middle ages. Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't' 2013-05-23T18:30:01Z “Let tyrants shake their iron rod,” the hymn opens, with a stirring and catchy melody. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And the album ends with “When I’m Weary,” an orchestral hymn that acknowledges “dark dark days” but vows, “You remind me to keep on trying.” Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The hymn, written originally in protest of slavery, gives the installation its name. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z I was jarred awake not by songbirds but by Hindu hymns blasting from loudspeakers at a nearby temple. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z This is essentially what Mr. Fay does, adding a bit of Christian mysticism, to the tune of folk-rock, hymns, and canons. Review: Bill Fay’s ‘Who Is the Sender?’ Harks Back to Another Time 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The church is simple, with music led by a man on guitar and hymns loaded from YouTube. Nostalgia: the yearning that will continue to carry the Trump message forward 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain,” a set of uncannily warped pop gems and warbled solitary hymns, had performed much like its predecessors: critically praised, commercially stillborn. Mark Linkous Died in 2010. His Final Album Is a Family Affair. 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Gardiner eventually took over, leading the subsequent performance which ended with the public emulating the church congregation of Bach's day by joining the professional musicians in the final hymn. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z He first cropped up on the opening track of 2010's award-winning Queen of Denmark, hymned as Grant's "one and only". John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts – review 2013-03-07T15:29:01Z And Ives, that great masher of genres, closes this genre-mashing festival with his grandly impassioned Second Symphony, which weaves American songs and hymns throughout. Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And in “Everyone But Me,” a solemn piano hymn, she counsels, “Our strange and beautiful lies/Fade and turn to dust.” Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In both the elaborated choruses and the more straightforward four-part chorales, or hymns, German diction was excellent and, most important, deeply expressive of the libretto’s often-fraught text. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z A soundtrack of hymns plays in the gallery, but so does live audio from a police scanner in New York City, where the artist now lives. From Derek Fordjour, a Sense of Abandoned Ritual 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z On the other hand, "Amazing Grace," the new musical about the man who wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, has been struggling at the Broadway box office since opening last month to mediocre reviews. 'Hamilton' musical making a mint on Broadway 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Captain Beefheart was also a visionary in one other, often overlooked, way: he hymned the natural world in his own inimitably odd way on songs such as My Human Gets Me Blues and Wild Life. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z He learned to hunt and became a champion of the widely despised kangaroo, proposing it as a king of Australasian beasts and hymning its remarkable adaptation to the harshest conditions. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z The production draws heavily on the Shakers’ simple, stirring hymns. Dance Review: ?Angel Reapers? at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-12-01T22:38:17Z The finale, in the apt words of the composer, is a “hymn to work and the healthy activity of living.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z They sang “Thank you, Lord,” when Sally-Ann began to sing a hymn of praise. Watch Robin Roberts and Her Sister Tell Their Remarkable Story 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z It was Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s favorite hymn, and it’s said that his last words were a request to have it ring at his funeral. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But to be clear, while he may be singing from the same hymn book as "An Inconvenient Truth," Schwarzenegger believes the message should be delivered in a very different way. Schwarzenegger superhero will overlook civil rights 2011-04-05T20:28:31Z After it, the scherzo is an almost throwaway relaxation and the slow movement a gorgeously expansive hymn. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 no 3 and Op 106, etc – review 2012-11-07T15:46:44Z In Bates’s case, that means beatboxing, sampling and other electronic ephemera; with Ives, it was hymns, marches and folk songs, but refracted and deconstructed. NSO showcases Kennedy Center’s composer in residence, older American gems 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Folk music, hymn tunes, visionary literature, Renaissance polyphony and cutting-edge orchestration fused in a potent summoning of the humanist New Jerusalem. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z The song’s melody is adapted from the Latin crucifixion hymn “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded,” which was first translated into English in 1752; Simon wrote the lyrics shortly after Richard Nixon was reëlected, in 1972. Feeling Lost with Paul Simon One Last Time 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Is everything awesome, as the opening song implied, or is that very hymn of praise a frightening imposition? The Year in Movies 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z She is a morning person, as many clergypeople are, but she writes most of her hymns late at night, and, in this case, she started writing on Friday at around ten P.M. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z No song was more indelible to that image than “I’m Still Here,” a hymn a Broadway survivor like Ms. Stritch could truly relate to. Broadway to Pay Tribute to Elaine Stritch 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Beyoncé sang the gospel hymn “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” dressed in diaphanous white and surrounded by a company with outstretched hands. Grammy Winners 2015: Beck, Sam Smith, Pharrell and Beyoncé Thrive 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z See, in "A Christmas . . . Present," being present largely means staying at home instead going out to do stuff, and singing hymns around your backyard firepit which, like, everybody has, right? If "A Christmas …Present" shows what Candace Cameron Bure means by tradition, she can keep it 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z It is a hymn from a fan to an act that — miraculously and perversely — refuses to add up. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Wade in the Water is a legendary and much-covered baptism hymn that became a trigger to escape from slavery when sung on the plantation. Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results 2012-08-30T08:31:39Z Similarly the a cappella music consists of Shaker hymns, but Mr. Solari has harmonized and arranged them in ways foreign to austere Shaker practice. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z But Chandra is neither a martyr nor a superhero, and “Fire in the Mountains” is more than a catalog of her miseries or a hymn to her indomitability. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Next, the sound of a chorus vigorously singing a Christian hymn about a quest for heaven presents a different vision. Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The work begins by celebrating Martin Luther, through his use of Psalm 46 for his hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” and Mendelssohn, through his use of that hymn in his “Reformation” Symphony. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z It comes as a relief that the show ends not with the silence of the grave but with a performance of the hymn “Bound for the Promised Land.” Review: Conjuring the Ghosts of Theater Past in ‘A Pink Chair’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z It also employs purposeful blurring of traditions, as on “Adeste Fideles,” on which the horns of a hymn become the horns of a banda — or is it the other way around? For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z And on Sunday morning, we sang these hymns. Q&A with Leslie Jordan: Why he made a country album, how Capote saved his life and spending time in the ‘pokey’ with Robert Downey Jr. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Music, sport and young adult literature have all been happily singing from this feminist hymn sheet for some time. Sex, porn and toxic masculinity: the struggle to bring up better boys 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z “Diana’s favorite hymn, ‘I Vow to Thee My Country,’ was part of her wedding and her funeral, which made me cry,” Mrs. Richards said. Field Notes: The Royal Wedding : Tossing the Royal Bouquet, One Generation to the Next 2011-04-22T19:35:15Z It opens with the smash of a gong, ringing in “Taita Inty,” a song described as a “traditional Incan hymn that dates back to 1000 B.C.” On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z My favourite song of Ayumi's is Ladies Night, a hymn to girl power. Why Japanese pop matters 2010-03-25T23:10:00Z One of the hymns chosen by the couple for their service, "Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer," was the final one to be sung at Diana's funeral. Prince William pays tribute to Diana at wedding 2011-04-29T12:26:58Z But most of Sunday’s music was based on ancient church hymns. Christopher Candela dispels the notion that all organ music sounds the same Their shenanigans are a hymn to infantilism, to the fascination that babies, and some older males, have for their own waste products. Jackass 3D: Now You Get Sprayed 2010-10-15T17:10:00Z His style suggests a folklike vernacular that finds purchase in country, Protestant hymns, jazz and blues. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z The hymns, processional music, anthem and blessing were all incredibly moving – there was literally not a dry eye in the house! | Designing a Dream Daytime Wedding 2014-02-06T14:00:33Z On the other hand, I gritted my teeth through the exuberantly vulgar number in which Grandpa sings a ribald hymn to the glory of indiscriminate sex. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z They all are implied in the piece’s nine sections — effectively made 11 by two “Ascension” interludes with the rich harmony of a chorale and the serene lyricism of a hymn. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Imagine my surprise when I walked into the office this morning to hear hymns – it could have been Sunday morning. Tom Jones 2010-07-28T17:18:00Z This is very much a hymn to la vie Parisienne – and as I spent a lot of time there in the 1980s, I can vouch for the author's veracity and descriptive grasp. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z That stirring invocation of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts” would be echoed decades later in Mr. Williams’s “Air and Simple Gifts,” composed for the 2009 presidential inauguration. Music Review: John Williams Birthday Concert at Tanglewood 2012-08-19T21:48:18Z "Maybe their upbringing was similar because they were also exposed to church and church hymns a lot," she says. The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z On the stand, an Uighur activist testifies about the roundup of a million Uighurs, describing the government forcing them to sing hymns praising the Communist Party and to write self-critical essays. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Various incarnations of this band have been wrapping warm harmonies around Ibrahim's lovely combinations of African traditional and pop music, church hymns and American jazz since the 1980s. Abdullah Ibrahim | Classical review 2010-04-01T21:00:00Z Often, her hymns are posted to the Internet within a few days of the events to which they respond, and congregations begin singing them immediately. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Above all, it’s a hymn to Northampton, a commemoration of the lost people and places of his childhood. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Opala then located the Gullah singer’s daughter, who knew the song, and flew her to Africa, where she and a Mende woman singing the funeral hymn joined in a duet. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z But get beyond the obvious tourist stops, and this old city offers excellent Chicano art, 19th-century-style shopping, church music that goes way beyond hymns, and plenty of that famous Texas hospitality. Weekend in San Antonio 2010-04-01T20:01:00Z It’s a songbook of tremendous range — including but hardly limited to thunderous pronouncements, shining hymns, gentle ballads and vaudeville-style “character” tunes. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z Several black audience members, interviewed after a recent performance, seemed surprised that anyone might not know the hymn. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z The production opens with the cast singing a couple of temperance hymns, and the narrative is punctuated throughout with songs, dances and even a couple of barroom brawls, which keep things lively. | 'The Drunkard': Saved, Before Alcoholics Anonymous 2010-10-04T21:32:00Z Tuesday’s service will feature the hymn “Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer,” fulfilling one of Philip’s wishes for his funeral that wasn’t carried out because of restrictions that banned singing. Senior royals gather to honor Prince Philip at memorial 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The best of the songs are the lively Latin numbers like “Bendición” and “No Se Puede” and the mother’s “Ave Maria” — not the hymn, but a ballad-prayer in very basic Spanish. The New York Musical Theater Festival Features Joy and Purpose 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z And it's life as a whole lot that ends up getting hymned, not the path through it on which the film chooses to bestow its particular seal of approval. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z The other three are a setting of the Te Deum hymn of praise running to more than an hour. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z The offerings are diverse: Brahms’s “German Requiem,” hymns by Arvo Pärt, a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work called “Sutra,” and a semistaged dramatization of the biblical story of Judith, using Croatian verses and melodies. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z It’s a church hymn, “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” and she’s obviously not at her prime, but man oh man, the power of even that faded glory. Sparkle: Whitney Houston's Last Picture Show and Jordin Sparks' First 2012-08-16T16:17:09Z And the Tory party manifesto is done up to look like a hymn book. If Only – review 2013-06-29T23:06:22Z That vision coalesced in Mr. Harris’s original anthem “I Do Believe,” a hymn to American unity and cooperation as stalwartly upbeat as “The House I Live In,” Frank Sinatra’s ode to harmony in diversity. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z He finished the concert with a devout hymn of apology, “Stay With Me,” previously recorded by Frank Sinatra — a final glimpse of redemption. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z In his March 15 speech, Johnson said he had summoned the Special Session of Congress in response to “the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people.” REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z He manages to be persuasive even in the potentially embarrassing bit of tai chi-esque movement Ms. Waltz gives the character during the “Evening Star” hymn. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A rare tape of Baldwin singing the hymn “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” echoes through the galleries. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z One of Wilson’s most vibrant hymns to nature was inspired by the scenery around “Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery.” Review: The Mystery of the British Landscape Master 2010-06-04T14:00:00Z Once communion had been given and the last hymn had been sung, the congregation spilled out onto the cobblestones and into their waiting cars — many to take the next plane to Paris. A Pause to Remember Franca Sozzani, Italian Vogue Editor 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z “Toxic Psalms” includes, among other selections, a Syrian Orthodox hymn, Sarah Hopkins’s “Past Life Melodies,” and works by the Slovenian composer Lojze Lebic and the American Jacob Cooper. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The catchiest sequence of notes in “Frozen 2” may be the one based on a Latin hymn about Judgment Day. How to Follow Up ‘Frozen’? With Melancholy and a Power Ballad 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Cage subtracts some notes from two hymns by the early American composer William Billings, and extends the duration of some that remain, creating an eerily pure, serene suggestion of 18th-century harmonies. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z I’m ultimately not sure if “Are we not drawn” is hopeful or hopeless, a hymn to human endeavor or futility. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z In “Time Is Tight,” his musical memories connect back to childhood, to the church, to funerals and kitchen hymns sung by elderly neighbors. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "She even recorded a CD of hymns for her family as a gift last year," said Cibrowski. Mother of GMA co-host Robin Roberts dies 2012-08-31T12:48:10Z His father’s discovery of his son’s attraction to men turns him into an unforgiving patriarch wielding his Bible as a weapon, as he leads the family in the hymn “Children of the Heavenly King.” Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z Neighbors complained to authorities that “jazz hymns” sung by Divine’s followers after dinner climaxed in shouts of “joy and delirium” that kept them awake at night. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z They’re called “Amber Waves,” “Bounty” and “Fruited Plane” after the patriotic hymn “America the Beautiful.” Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And yet she was still like, ‘I want you to go in the church and play these hymns.’ Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z “They would sing these Haitian hymns, man,” Ms. Charles recalled in a recent interview at a Bushwick cafe. Visionary Musicians Seek Truths for the Future in a Spiritual Past 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Fowler, who is a nurse, not a professional musician, sat down at a keyboard and, with Hunt’s arms around her, played a bit of the traditional hymn “How Great Thou Art.” Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z It's a political hymn, celebrating victory in the war of independence and reminding everyone who was responsible: "To tyrants never bend the knee/ But join with heart, and soul and voice/ For Jefferson and Liberty." Readers recommend: Songs about the vote 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z On Thursday, she appeared with fellow singer Kelly Price on stage at a Hollywood club, where she sang the hymn "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" to loud cheers. Houston recalled as happy in days before death 2012-02-12T12:17:25Z Bono has already described their next LP, Songs of Ascent, as a "ghost album of hymns and Sufi singing". U2 reworking hits with Blackstreet member 2010-07-23T10:10:00Z |
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