Word: lamentably
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From the shadows came the slow, profound chanting of Jeremiah's lament for Christ. Her attention was riveted on a Benedictine monk who might have been a figure in one of her own drawings today. "He had an air which did not please me, an aspect rough and terrible. He was wearing a strange, black costume-austere, and with lines that recalled an earlier, more primitive age-a pointed hood, a belt of leather. What end was he seeking? I wondered. The austere grandeur of his habit, of that belt which hung from his waist, somehow entangled my heart...
...Rabbi Bernstein, have never agreed on what happens after death, though most of them in recent centuries have recited the Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe in physical resurrection. This probably accounts for the increasing trend toward cremation which is found among...
...Radcliffe chorus alone presented Gustav Holst's "Hecuba's Lament" with the contralto, Eunice Alberts, as soloist. Miss Alberts gave a flawless performance; her voice never lost the rich color heard in the sustained "Lo" which opens the work. Expressive phrasing endowed her cry to Priam with genuine tragedy. The highly dramatic character of the "Lament" was maintained throughout by the carefully controlled voices of the Radcliffe chorus...
...suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird," a cheery fat man, sang a lament about his terrible life before "the Lord reached down his hand for me." He kept his eyes riveted to the ceiling while he was singing, as if he expected the hand to appear once again, and there were more shouts of "Beautiful...
Featured on the same program will be "Hecuba's Lament" by Holt, two choruses from "Solomon" by Handel, and a chorus from Bach's 16th cantata...