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Hovahness' hypnotic "Prayer of St. Gregory" was as etheral as its name implies. The strings shone, the seconds lending an undulating underpinning to the melody. In several spots 'hanging' half-decrescendos followed crescendos and were followed by a second crescendo, swelling and breathing, breathy and lively. A particularly animated Christ inhaled loudly and gestured extravagantly with the music, seemingly as enraptured as the audience...
Genius and passion. To end an artistic endeavor of any sort with the intent and feeling that one had in its beginning represents the greatest expression of both. The Bach Society Orchestra's final concert of the season contained just such a note of finality. Conductor Evan Christ concluded his BSO career Saturday night, replete with the show-stopping presence of world-class composer and conductor Alan Hovahness and a coterie of soloists. Christ will conduct his thesis work May 10th, but for all intents and purposes, this nearly flawless concert was his performing swan-song...
...Christ says that he plans take a year off after graduation to explore some "fundamentals." This concert offers evidence that he's already got them down. Much luck to Christ and many kudos on an excellent performance to his now-former...
...Baptist a public testament to his integrity, Clinton is deeply reticent about his faith, even showing mild disdain for those who would play up their faith in any way. "He would turn off the TV angrily whenever a beauty contestant said her success was due to Jesus Christ," his mother Virginia Kelley once said...
...must take it more seriously than we do.' My mother was having to drag us there," recalls Patty Howe Criner, a friend of Clinton's since elementary school. On Oct. 17, 1956, when he was 10 years old, Clinton made the overt profession of his personal commitment to Christ, as required by his Baptist denomination, and was publicly baptized by being immersed in water. A year later, he asked a Sunday- school teacher to take him 50 miles into Little Rock so he could listen to the Rev. Billy Graham. When he got home, he put part of his allowance...