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...land to feel out his prospects for '76. He was in Dallas, where he was giving his Christian testimony to a packed house of the faithful at the Southern Baptist Convention. The most distinct image I recall from the occasion is that of a mouse-like man with a choir-boy's face and a Sunday schooler's plaintive, sincerely righteous voice, leaning in to the mike to tell of his conversion experience and waving somewhat embarrassedly to the throng of Baptist delegates, his arm draped around president-elect Jaroy Weber, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lubbock, Texas...
Organ Recital Series presents Joan Lippincott of Westminster College Choir. Memorial Church...
Richardson asked for time to consider. He returned to his embassy residence in Regent's Park and talked to his wife Anne. Somewhat reluctant to move again and give up her activity with two British singing groups (including a Bach choir), she nevertheless was willing. Richardson tapped longtime associates by telephone. One warned that Ford was unlikely to win another term, so why should Richardson take up a lackluster post like Commerce in a failing Administration? Others advised that Richardson should accept the job to get back into the thick of the political action in Washington. Richardson decided...
Supported by an all-volunteer cast of 200, Pir Vilayat narrated from the high cathedral pulpit as the Sufi choir sang themes from various religions and a small orchestra, complete with conch and sitar, emitted a variety of sounds. The sequence of the performance, if not the message, is borrowed from the Christian Eucharist. In each section, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and Moslems are given a turn to express their devotion. As the Mass ends, Pir Vilayat intones: "I am the One I love, there is but One. One in all. All in One." With that, the cast bursts into...
...reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...