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Speakers frequently mentioned the importance of including all human beings, regardless of their religion, ethnic group, and physical capabilities, in the chapel and at HDS at large. Worshippers joined together to sing the hymn "All Creatures of the Earth and Sky" after prayers...
While composing some madrigals 20 years ago, William Bolcom stumbled onto an odd coincidence: "I discovered that the funeral hymn Abide with Me and the wedding march from Lohengrin fit in perfect Irving Berlin counterpoint -- a funeral-marriage, Love with Death." This is not a discovery that would impress most composers, but Bolcom is not like most composers. So when the Philadelphia Orchestra performed his powerful new Fifth Symphony last week, the second movement featured, along with intimations of both Tannhauser and Tommy Dorsey, that bizarre wedding of Wagner and Abide with...
...tranquil lake. Catastrophe will not wipe out nature; in the foreground of the volcanic plain, new plants spring to life. This, as the art historian David C. Huntington once remarked, is about as close as American painting in the Civil War period ever came to the Battle Hymn of the Republic or the Gettysburg Address...
...roll. Here's heavy proof: an eight-CD box set of vintage Killer material, all recorded for Memphis' glorious Sun label between 1956 and 1963. In the set are 246 tunes, 30 performances issued for the first time, each and every one a blisterer, including even The Marines' Hymn and Dixie, for Lord's sake. Jerry Lee classics are included too, of course, sounding as full of brimstone as ever. While Elvis became the perpetrator and victim of his own melodrama, Jerry Lee pumped away at his piano, howling at the devil and pining for glory. Whatever ultimate judgment awaits...
...combat- style weapons as well as soul-searching debates about the victimization of women. But the most touching commentary involved very few words. After a candlelight procession to the university, some 1,500 women and men sat silently in a Montreal chapel, the quiet broken only by the occasional hymn...