Word: hymning
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...aspect of the music itself, which remains a brilliant showcase of the woodwinds and horns. Musicologists have yet to determine whether the theme was actually written by Haydn or by his student Ignaz Pleyel. Regardless of the nature of his piece's thematic roots, Brahms effectively unearthed a simple, hymn-like melody and molded it into an intricately layered set of variations. Even if the talents of the oboe, clarinet, flute and bassoon players did receive the spotlight in most of the theme's airy permutations, the constant alteration of the string players' style-from pizzicato to spiccato to longer...
...TIME could put this picture on the cover without conveying some kind of tacit endorsement. In December, I stumbled on a fine lithograph of a Catherine wheel with naked bodies hanging from it, and down in one corner a little man playing a hymn of hate on an organ, and the man was Hitler. By the time I found it, Harry was away, and I was running the shop. The editors of TIME fell into violent disagreement over my proposal to substitute the lithograph for the colored portrait. In the end, I put the lithograph...
Opening with a menacing remix of the ordinarily lovely "Hymn," Moby proceeded to dive into his back catalog of early '90s house tracks, accompanied by two drummers and a live bass player, a la Squarepusher. The shirtless Mr. Hall himself bounced all over the stage, becoming an occasional third drummer and pounding on keyboards from time to time. "Ah Ah" and "Bring Back My Happiness" were played for speed, a fact appreciated by the crowds. The rave classic "Move," stretched to eight minutes, was far too short. Euphoria was the order of the night as Moby repeatedly plunged into...
After the communal carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful," associate conductor Constance DeFotis led the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum in the "Hymn to St. Cecilia" by Benjamin Britten. This piece takes its lyrics from a W.H. Auden poem of the same title; and like the poem, the music contains surprises and irregularities, yet maintains a lyric quality. True to the refrain, "Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and inspire:/ Translated Daughter, come down and startle/ Composing mortals with immortal fire," it seemed that St. Cecilia had indeed come down to bless this performance, for the Collegium Musicum...
...That means setting a course which can be maintained with real consistency through any number of vicissitudes: 'Calm rising'--as our hymn has it--'through change and through storm,'" Rudenstine said...