Sentences with phrase «own oratorio»

Bach frequently borrowed movements from his own secular music and integrated them into an oratorio, which was seen as a form of dramatic music, a kind of theological opera.

What Christianity would have been like without its great hymns and oratorios, the poetry of the Bible, the time - transcending liturgies of the sacraments, and the distinctive beauty of Christian houses of worship is hard to contemplate.

It might seem fitting, then, that the oratorio is bound together by a shared source material and a few shared themes (identified as «mortality, identity, the hunt»), but not by a shared understanding of Moby Dick as such.

But the oratorio wasn't all bad.

If you don't live in DC, however, and you live in some benighted cultural desert (like New York City) then nobody is putting on an opera, but you did have the chance to see something else: an oratorio called Moby Dick: Death and Other Curiosities.

Not all of our hymns, but many hymns, spirituals, carols, chants, and oratorios express with marvelous beauty and dignity the impulse of the human spirit to bless and glorify God.

John is more like a «sacred drama or oratorio.»

Despite attempts of harmonizers and oratorio librettists to concoct something called the Seven Last Words, Jesus» words from the cross in each Gospel provide a perspective on each evangelist's particular theological understanding of the crucifixion.

We are not then surprised that the Messiah is not a generically different sort of music from one of Handel's «secular» oratorios.

It always seemed to me that Superstar was more of the oratorio or passion genre than that of the musical or even «rock opera.»

At the end, students can choose to do one of three projects: research the archaeological remains of Solomon's kingdom, listen to and review Mendelssohn's oratorio, or chart the 14 wonders reported about Elijah and the 28 reported of Elisha by the books of Kings.

There is also a short essay on «cultural connections» devoted to music, namely Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.

Handel wrote many of his great «in praise of God» oratorios in D Major.

Owen has collaborated with composers on two oratorios.

Kurt Weill's monumental oratorio is the centerpiece of BAM's five - part celebration of the iconoclastic composer.

Serves as a member of the Pennell Committee at the Library of Congress until 1993, replacing Jim Dine; works first with Donald Saff and then with Yvonne Jacquette to select prints for the Library of Congress Pennell Print Collection; is guest teacher at Cornell University, SUNY Purchase, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles; sings in and designs a set based on Goya's prisoner figures for the «El Salvador» oratorio concert by the Back Bay Chorale under the direction of conductor Larry Hill, which takes place at Harvard's Sanders Theater on 18 May; exhibition Wakeby Day / Wakeby Night: Monumental Monotypes by Michael Mazur opens 11 March at the Hayden Gallery, MIT (colorplate 18), in conjunction with installation of Wakeby monotypes at the 500 Memorial Drive dormitory building.

The Four Nations Ensemble embraces the Wadsworth Atheneum's pioneering exhibitions of Counter-Reformation and Baroque Art with passages from 17th - and 18th - century oratorios.

In the poetic Untitled 1971, Kounellis painted an extract from the score of Bach's St John Passion on a dark green canvas and had a cellist playing music from the oratorio in front of it on the occasion of its first exhibition.

The occasion of «Documenta XI» in 2002 was marked by the «shadow oratorio» Confessions of Zeno, commissioned especially for the exhibition.