A club. People dancing. Music playing. Some things are universal across cultures. Some are not. I experienced both this night. Years later TJ and I are finishing lunch at the still very East-Germanesque cafeteria of The Funkhaus in Berlin. We walk back into the studio that he has ...
The faithful remember the events of Great Friday through the reading of Psalms, the Gospels, and singing hymns about Jesus’ crucifixion. Both adults and kids, take part in Good Friday lessons and learn in detail about the events that occurred on this day. Many Byzantine Christians also observe...
Though it appears in popular music, melisma is a historical composition and singing technique that has been in use for hundreds of years. This style of singing is theorized to have developed in liturgical hymns and Gregorian chant around the 1500s, but it was mostly popularized in the United ...
the back. Their choir loft was almost completely out of sight in the upper loft. I could hear the music just fine, but I couldn't see any of the people singing or playing it. I guess that was the point, since the choir was supposed to suggest the presence of angels during the ...