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The “Sacred Harp” is the most popular songbook for music called “shape note singing.” This year, a new edition will be ...
The harpist, composer and bandleader plays it on her latest album, “Gadabout Season,” a persuasive argument for the vast ...
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” and “from 10p pieces grow great harp players”, said no-one ever. Unless they were ...
The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.
Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like scrapbooks or family Bibles, tucking mementos between pages, taking notes in ...
They invited singer input, holding community meetings and singing events to help evaluate the more than 1,100 new songs submitted for consideration. Sacred Harp singing events are not performances.
By Genevieve Glatsky On Sunday, Venezuela plans to hold an election for governor and legislators to represent Essequibo — a sparsely populated, oil-rich territory. But there’s one problem.
ASML Holding N.V. ASML has seen its share price soar more than 17% over the past month. This surge has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 index, which gained 12.1% during the same period.
A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...
Dubai Holding boosted the size of the initial public offering of its residential real estate investment trust, seeking to raise as much as $584 million amid strong demand from domestic and ...
What’s holding Reform back? It’s probably not what you think. By Ben Walker National opinion polls are underestimating Reform. The party turned out more voters than pollsters expected in the local ...
Still image from footage capturing the altercation. Erol Eğrek, a former employee at a Çalık Holding-owned textile factory in Turkmenistan, died on May 9 after being involved in a violent altercation ...