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...also recognized the power of period instrumentation. Harvard is home to the Baroque Society Orchestra, which is—according to Early Music Society president Michael V. Givey ’06—the only orchestra of its kind at an undergraduate institution. In addition, the three Holden Choir choral groups perform early music pieces on a regular basis.The Chamber Singers, a subgroup of Collegium Musicum, is currently under the direction of Emily C. Zazulia ’06 and has focused on fifteenth and sixteenth century music this year. Zazulia says she has enjoyed introducing unfamiliar material...
...Confessor” also features Case’s interpretation of the folk-hymn “John Saw That Number”, a rousing tribute to John the Baptist. Her version of the song is commensurate to its subject: her recording has all the fervor of a Pentecostal choir on Sunday morning. Case’s band keeps things safe but melodically interesting with jangly pianos, lively drums, and bluesy guitars. Case delivers a passionate vocal performance and doubles her own voice to give the impression of a backing chorus—the result is mesmerizing. Heady tracks like...
...Peter's Square: "God, the creator and father of all, will call to account even more severely those who spill the blood of their brother in His name." Like his predecessor, the preacher's message is clear. Only this time, one wonders if it will ever reach beyond the choir...
...country but for a ceramic vessel of red wine on the dinner table - offered in communion. Because the dinner, it turns out, is no mere Bible study, 12-step meeting or other pendant to Sunday service at a Denver megachurch. It is the service. There is no pastor, choir or sermon - just six believers and Jesus among them, closer than their breath. Or so thinks Jeanine, who two years ago abandoned a large congregation for the burgeoning movement known in evangelical circles as "house churching," "home churching" or "simple church." The week she left, she says, "I cried every...
...while White Collar Boy is a chain-gang romance played out to the glam swagger of T. Rex and even a hint of Marc Bolan vocals. But it's the less cool, neglected hits from the mid-'70s that most enthuse Murdoch, who still sings in his local church choir. "People really think you are taking the piss when you say you liked Hall and Oates more than the Velvet Underground," he says. The Life Pursuit takes in more familiar country and '60s soul sounds, gets funky at times and then tender when it needs to, and lyrically the characterization...