As fans began to leave, Alexi Lalas, the general manager of the Galaxy, had one final exhortation: be sure to buy a jersey on the way out.
Among the many pearls of wisdom in The Artist's Compass, one finds exhortations to explore other art forms, to engage with the world, to prioritize a formal education, and to consider making a home outside the major art capitals.
Ordinary people today confront well-financed, sophisticated organizations capable of carpet-bombing the public with insistent one-way exhortations.
The litany of Trump's offenses was capped with an exhortation, one that foreshadows a key challenge for Democrats if they face him in the fall: Clinton urged those opposed to Trump to defeat him by voting.
Using his e-mails and text messages, she documents a year in Mr Lukes's working life, which is punctuated by occasional e-mails of encouragement from Pandora, his business coach, who signs off each one with an exhortation to "Strive and Thrive!"Through this privileged access to the "sent items" folder of his mailbox, readers are introduced to Mr Lukes's family and colleagues.
While the room rumbled with responses for and against Berman's exhortation, one audience member responded "Amen".
"Syria needs us and we need you," says one of its exhortations for charity.
The documentation is unclear as to whether these were studio performances or given before a audience, though some extraneous noises - the odd cough, what sounds like a triangle being dropped at one point, and exhortations from the conductor - suggest that these are all one-off recordings, without too many retakes or patchings.
However, the approach is almost entirely one of encouragement and exhortation.
