Word: evangelist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas concerts are always festive, but they become especially joyful when they contain real Christmas music. Heinrich Schutz' Christmas Story is nearly a self-contained service of lessons and carols, alternating between the Evangelist's narration and responses in the form of choruses and arias. The choruses are particularly colorful; they use many different combinations of voices (there is even one for four basses...
Carlotta Wilsen combined flexibility with an ability to draw out sustained passages in a fine performance of the soprano arias. Don Meaders was forceful and poised singing Herod. As the Evangelist, Henry Gibbons sang with ease and lucid diction; his performance was solidly musical at every point...
...credentials of the only other politician ever to deliver the Lectures are somewhat less obvious. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.), the 1966 Noble Lecturer, is certainly no evangelist. But if he was unable to convince large number of students to take up the ministry, he did succeed in winning a great many new supporters...
...Evangelist Billy Graham's huge summer crusade did not so much as rattle a window in Lambeth Palace, residence of the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view...
Married. Anne Graham, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy Graham; and Dr. Daniel Lotz, 29, dentist son of a Baptist minister; with both reverend fathers officiating; in Montreal...