The "Christmas Oratorio" — actually a gathering of six individual cantatas written for the liturgical feast days of the Christmas season, extending to the Epiphany, on Jan . 6— is a piece of similar scope and scale to "Messiah," with even a little pastoral sinfonia at a parallel juncture.
But for two days this week, the quiet theater was a gathering place for two dozen police chiefs and police union presidents.
When he arrived here today at a memorial gathering for three Fatah militants, including a close associate, who were killed on Tuesday by Israel, he was given a place of honor.
After intensive questioning and discussion, Prof. Anthony Campolo, a provocative speaker popular with young Christian evangelical groups, was asked by Campus Crusade founder-president Bill Bright to withdraw from the program at Youth Congress '85, a gathering set for two months later in Washington.
It was his first media gathering for two weeks because of an international break.
But across the Nile to the west near Cairo University, where several thousand of Mr Morsi's supporters have been gathering for two days, protesters were left dumbfounded by the announcement.
An inspection focuses on data gathering for two purposes.
He returned to his comic wheelhouse in the amusement The Night Before (2015), about a group of friends gathering for one last Christmas Eve debauch.
Presidents, prime ministers and other government officials are gathering for five days of discussions with captains of industry, bank bosses and heads of non-governmental organisations.
On the anniversaries of these two epic failures in Iraq and Libya, anti-war activists are gathering for four days of actions from March 18-21.
It is a traditional gathering for the two coaches, though the usual circumstances have certainly changed.
