Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kingdom of England is only 1,000 years old." "These last 6,000 years-brief though they are . . ." "After all, the reign of man on the Earth . . . is so far only about 100,000 years...
Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
...must be now the kingdom comin...
...Peaceable Kingdom," which followed the very effective "Alleluia," presents interesting contrasts between the men's and women's voices. It has none of the precise word-coloring technique of the Handel work but creates an impressionistic mood ranging from a style resembling Renaissance Church music to modern syncopation. Its close, a complicated fugue which is resolved into a unison crescendo, was somewhat disappointing. The earlier black and white differentiation between the righteous and the wicked was lost in the final phrase, "the mountain of the Lord...
Thompson's "Alleluia" and Peaceable Kingdom" will feature the Sanders Theater offerings on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 24. Tickets for these concerts go on sale at the end of this week...