Sentence examples for church performance from inspiring English sources

Noye's Fludde (1958), Curlew River (1964), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966) and The Prodigal Son (1968) were for church performance, and the secular The Golden Vanity was intended to be performed in schools.

The first of three "parables for church performance" that Britten wrote in the 1960s, "Curlew River" is an adaptation of Juro Motomasa's medieval play "Sumidagawa" that hovers serenely between Japanese theater and Anglican spirituality.

Haydn's "Seven Last Words" is a string quartet originally written for church performance as an Easter meditation, with each movement responding to one of the exclamations Jesus made while being crucified.

Joseph was so moved by Robert's singing during a church performance that he said (on his deathbed in some versions), "God gave you a voice, and you must sing".

Elie is interested in the way such efforts took music that had often been written for church performance and gave it radically new contexts, taking it "into the parlor and out on the highway, into the isolation chamber of the recording studio and to outer space".

In the end, the "Take Me To Church" performance was not, in reality, Polunin's last dance.

The two church performances, at least, did not disappoint.

These include support for opera singers and pop stars, choral concerts and church performances, work as an operatic pit band and events like the presentation of "Carousel" that Leonard Slatkin is to lead at Carnegie Hall in June.

One disc has the robust church performances from the documentary; a second, "Help Me to Sing," hands 20 old Sacred Harp songs to performers like Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Doc Watson, Woven Hand, Danielson and Jim Lauderdale, who usually carry the songs toward the folky and roots-rock realms of Americana.

An out-of-church performance by Mr. Green can be a fumbling 20 minutes short or two hours of transcendent soul.

Don't include every little church choir performance, just the important stuff.