Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance of excerpts from Batistes Late Suite. This fascinating piece of music sets the basic harmonies and pulse of traditional New Orleans jazz in the full orchestral context in which it rarely appears. This particular performance strung three of the suite's movements together and incorporated a poetic sermon by the composer's wife. Edith Batiste, into the musical table. As Mrs. Batiste declaimed her verses about the disunity of man and similar themes, the members of the rhythm section created a suitably dramatic background out of freely placed notes and rhythms. John Capello and Bruce McKinnon were exceptionally flexible...
...bizarre. At least in the talk shows, the moral is always loud and clear: Respect yourself, listen to others, stop beating on your wife. In fact it's hard to see how The Bill Bennett Show, if there were to be such a thing, could deliver a more pointed sermon. Or would he prefer to see the feckless Susan, for example, tarred and feathered by the studio audience instead of being merely booed and shamed...
...Silver Jubilee celebration for Gomes, titled "A Service of Thanks-giving For A Ministry," included a performance by the University Choir as well as a sermon by Lord St. John Fawsley, former leader of the British House of Commons...
...English to French, from Russian to Spanish, the 75-year-old Pontiff condemned the genocidal impulses that have scarred the 20th century. But he held out hope for the 21st, saying that there is a "universal moral law written on the human heart." Later the same day, in a sermon delivered at a Mass attended by 83,000 people at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, he pursued his themes in remarks directed specifically at the U.S. Excerpts...
...Whooping," a kind of delivery that characterizes the southern Black preaching tradition, blends sermon with song. Typically, the sermon begins slowly and builds toward a climax as the preacher finds the right...