In the ultimate show of respect for the approximately 189 Texans and 600 Mexicans who were either killed or wounded at the Alamo, the San Antonio Living History Association on Sunday will light 13 candles in a pre-dawn vigil as part of its "Remembering the Alamo" weekend.
Tavener's turn to a world of spirituality, via the Russian Orthodox church, was the inspiration for much of his music of the late 1970s onwards, and it produced a whole series of works of celestial simplicity and often heavenly length: longest of all his seven-hour dusk-to-dawn vigil, The Veil of the Temple, composed in 2003.
On Tuesday, as Justine Damond's family and friends gathered for a pre-dawn vigil at a beach in Sydney, friends of hers in Australia ― who called her by her nickname, Juzzy ― were also reaching out on social media.
By this, Tavener means works such as 2003's The Veil of the Temple, his gigantic, through-till-dawn musical vigil.
The violence began around 4 a.m., as hundreds of Islamists were observing dawn prayers at a vigil for Mr. Morsi outside the presidential guard facility where he was believed to be detained.
The arrival of dawn brought relief from his vigil & he knew that in a finite time he would trickle through the fingers of the hand & slip blissfully into oblivion.
Heading home, it dawned on me that my vigil hadn't been well conceived.
Contemplative and teary-eyed, the crowds start arriving at dawn and maintain their quiet vigils long after nightfall.
The culmination of the event comes after an all-night vigil to greet the dawn; a spectacularly feathered and painted group of Aztec dancers await us around a blazing fire, and a mandala of dance and rhythm and song erupts.
Along those lines, hundreds of young people from service groups will stage a vigil at the war memorial in the 12 hours before the dawn service and several thousand are expected to take part in Camp Gallipoli, where school students set up swags and sleep in the open to experience something of what the Anzacs did more than 100 years ago.
