Word: hymnã
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...opportunity to introduce new music to the Boston and Cambridge community. Each year since his arrival at Harvard in 2003, he has commissioned a new carol. On Sunday, the University Choir will premier a new setting of hymnwriter Isaac Watts’s “A Cradle Hymn?? by Daniel R. Pinkham ’44. “It is a gentle and lilting setting, featuring Pinkham’s signature harmonic language, that builds to a rousing climax,” says Jones. The services are fully participatory, with audience members singing...
Musically, Abattoir Blues also muddles reading any clear intentions. At times (“Cannibal’s Hymn?? and the title track in particular) this is rock and roll in all its arena-mystic-pot-cloud 1970 glory; drummer Robert Donahoe must have found John Bonham’s drumset on eBay. Elsewhere, the album sounds like over-drugged outtakes from Exile on Main Street—a narrow distinction, perhaps, but one which hints at how Cave & Co. never make it clear if they are trying to say something profound musically or just rock the fuck...
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