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Duration. About two hours. The Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus ("Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus") are a suite of 20 pieces for solo piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). The suite is a meditation on the infancy of Jesus. It was composed from March to September of 1944 following a January commission by Maurice ...
According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel ( Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven ( Acts 10:11 ). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or ...
In non-classical music, singers are primarily defined by their genre and their gender and not by their vocal range. [2] When the terms soprano , mezzo-soprano , contralto , tenor , baritone , and bass are used as descriptors of non-classical voices, they are applied more loosely than they would be to those of classical singers and generally ...
Werner writes that "unique in the history of music is the firm belief in the purifying and sin-atoning power of the Temple's music, ascribed to both chant and instruments." [9] The music had to be free from blemish or fault, and avoided magical elements. Even the High Priest's garment had symbolism: (Exod. 28:34–35): "a golden bell and a ...
The Heavenly Vision. In the light of His glory and grace. "The Heavenly Vision", also known as "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" (the first line of its chorus), is a hymn written by Helen Howarth Lemmel. It was inspired by a tract entitled Focused, [ 1] written by the missionary Isabella Lilias Trotter. The chorus is widely known, and has become a ...
Serving as a pulpit replacement in a subsequent summer break (for an Ohio church pastor that had fallen ill), the Boston theology trainee was persuaded by his father to abandon the formal preaching style of his training for one of simplicity, which led Peale to talk about "Jesus Christ... relat[ing him] to the simplicities of human lives," and which led, he would later recollect, to a "good ...
A piano trio comprising a pianist, violinist and cellist. Chamber groups traditionally perform publicly from score rather than from memory. Eye movement in music reading is the scanning of a musical score by a musician's eyes. This usually occurs as the music is read during performance, although musicians sometimes scan music silently to study it.
by E. O. Excell. " Jesus Bids Us Shine " is a children's hymn with words by Susan Bogert Warner (1819-1885) and music by Edwin Othello Excell (1851-1921). It was first published in the children's magazine The Little Corporal in 1868. Actor Leo McKern was heard singing the famous last line "You in your small corner, And I in mine" in the comedic ...