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...middle of this year’s service, the choir director’s daughter stepped on stage to sing “Emmanuel,” a drudging ballad of a hymn that I had never heard of before, and as soon as she released the first note, it was very clear that the song was going to be unfortunate. She was terrible. Not voice-cracking, not squeaky—there was nothing particularly notable about how bad her voice was, but it was bad in an off-pitch, out-of-key, YouTube-funny...
...album opens with “Yalira” (“sound” in Chichewa), a warm hymn of welcome and sweeping promise of the sounds to come. “You are all welcome / Let’s all dance because the fire is burning,” the song begins (in English translation) “Hey London!/ Hey New York! / Hey Paris! / Hey Lilongwe!” This song serves as the album’s thesis: the music is not about the past, its influences, or what critics will think; it?...
Following a hymn at the beginning of the service, Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who first took a course with Beer as sophomore at the College, recalled the first time that the two met.Mansfield remembered Beer as a professor who taught with passion and “made his points with fists rather than with fingers...
...that such sex has to be deprived of joy, frivolous play, fantasy and attractive positions," writes Father Knotz, who lives in a monastery of the Order of Friars outside Kraków in Stalowa Wola in southern Poland. "They think it has to be sad, like a traditional church hymn. But every act, caress or sexual position that has the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases...
...both doors.Breezing into the foyer, I almost smiled as I gulped down big breaths of relief. I’d nearly spun a full circle before I spotted the stack of hymnals. With both hands I grabbed the one on top. I was already turning to the right page (Hymn 138 praise be!) as I scampered back to the entrance. But one of the oak doors blasted open. I sprang back to avoid a smash. Boy was I was ready to loose my tongue on that varlet. But, to my disappointment, it was only Ezekiel.Ezekiel is one robust man?...