Category Archives: Scripture Reading

Acts 3:1-4:37 – Growth and Persecution

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Brad

The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. The premiere was a huge success, and … Continue reading →

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Acts2:1-47 – The Day of Pentecost 

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Brad

The “Ride of the Valkyries” is the popular term for the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas by Richard Wagner that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen. La ” Cabalgata de las Valkirias ” es el término popular para el … Continue reading →

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Acts 1:1-11 – The Ascension

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Brad

Alleluia is a piece for unaccompanied SATB chorus by Randall Thompson. Composed over the first five days of July in 1940, it was given its world premiere on July 8 of that year at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth. Aleluya es una … Continue reading →

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