And the process behind the painting, a process that is entirely mysterious as the film begins, is made progressively clearer as the work moves along.
The principal characters (Alex Wipf as the older man and Mr. Just's regular protagonist, Johannes Lilleore, as his young object of desire and spirit guide) simply inhabit three uncanny scenarios as the work moves to its beautiful, if largely undecipherable, conclusion.
And in the Martin, the lighting on a backdrop behind the orchestra shifted among shades of blue, purple and red as the work moved through its 23 scenes.
For most of the 20th century, the county had thriving textile and furniture industries, but they began leaving the area in the 1990s as the work moved to lower-wage countries.
A Requiem for the concert hall as well as the chorus, the work moved inexorably from the opening lines, intoned darkly and richly by the basses, to the full-chorus conclusion, "Lux aeterna," a fierce, consuming blaze of light.
Mrs. King was most gracious and she spoke with a memorable urgency as, clearly, the work moved forward so far and so forcefully by her husband was not yet finished -- in the United States or around the world.
During his year-long deployment with FAO in Somalia, Nisar focused on improving standard operating procedures, logistics streams, warehousing and vehicle fleets, as well as guidelines to direct the work moving forward.
Depressingly, as they did so, the work moved from being predominantly women's to mainly men's.
And she expanded her coloristic palette considerably as the work unfolded, moving seamlessly between sweet-toned lyricism, menacingly dark timbres and a gritty, textured sound that gave the solo line an unusual urgency and even, at times, fierceness.
On the one hand, we have the rate of applications being rewritten for cloud, or simply abandoned as the work is moved to entirely new ways to achieve the same result.
As interfaith work moves into the 21st century, its leaders must learn to be more inclusive of perspectives held by secular humanist, indigenous traditions, and non-theist who wish to put their beliefs into action for good.
