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...sound he received from the orchestra. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, directed by John Oliver, sounded alternately warm and earthy in the right moments (such as the opening), although perhaps not “heavenly” enough for the beginning and end of the last-movement setting of Psalm 150, with its plaintive Alleluia’s. Stravinsky reveals in this movement a personal side of his music that we rarely get to hear: the typical obsession with minor thirds (which is perfectly resolved with an E-flat to C modulation at the end), but also moments of rare beauty...
...possible. With special counsel Robert Ray--Ken Starr's tenacious successor--now weighing whether to indict Clinton for obstruction of justice, Bush might want to pre-empt Ray and pardon Clinton before any indictment. Bush could wrest the Bible out of William Rehnquist's hands, turn to an appropriate Psalm of forgiveness and make it the heart of his Inaugural Address. No one remembers Inaugural speeches anyway (can you quote one other than Kennedy's?), and Bush, who is not given to flights of rhetoric, could make his speech memorable simply by wrapping it around a pardon...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR Faith and Courage (Atlantic). This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one's self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR, FAITH AND COURAGE: This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one?s self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...
Silent meditation, a reading of an excerpt from Psalm 122 and a concluding prayer for the state of Israel followed...