Sentences with phrase «plays old hymns»

The organ plays old hymns.

Jeff Barnhart, one of the musicians who performed in the service at Spring Glen, described the basic shape of a jazz funeral as follows: «They (the performers) would play an old hymn such as «Just a Closer Walk with Thee» in the procession to the graveside.

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The Baroque, Biblical language represents a slender bulwark against the Void, and Carter Burwell's soundtrack supplies a rickety piano playing hymns and old - time music.

something else I missed, obviously), the Inauguration today and hearing Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom (to be played at the Inauguration), it was tempting to add my musings to the millions of words written and spoken about how these are all interconnected, why it took someone with Obama's background rather than the descendant of slaves to get things this far, or about the significance of transitions in democratic systems and why sometimes ritual matters (the personifications of the old and new regimes riding in a car together to the Inauguration not being the least important of these).

We sang lots of wonderful old hymns, an organist played a pipe organ, and the Pacific ocean was right out the windows on the left.