The concert's connecting lyric thread is the word "alleluia," an expression of praise and rejoicing that is markedly absent from the liturgy leading up to Easter but becomes ubiquitous during the holiday's celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, not least in the music surrounding it.
Psalm 1 serves as an introduction to the whole Psalter, while Psalm 150 is a final doxology (an expression of praise to God); the books are divided from each other by short doxologies that form the conclusions of the last psalm of each of the first four books.
It is prior to, and the basis of, any subsequent expression of praise or admiration.
In the Christian community it was an expression of praise and a foretaste of eternal gladness.
This tricky and sometimes hard bargain shaped the genre, guiding its transfigured love songs, its expressions of praise and sorrow, its twinning of the orthodox and the outrageous.
Close observers of video from Syria and of jihadist clips drew attention to the unusual clothes worn by Mr. Tice's captors, and the halting way they shouted expressions of praise for Allah, as if they needed to be prompted.
What so moves me is that Stravinsky takes the word "alleluia," which has led so many composers to clichéd expressions of praise, and sets it to such aching harmonies.
1966 - England wins the World Cup Let Us Now Praise Famous Footballers "To the accompaniment of expressions of praise, thanksgiving, and, in some cases, undisguised disbelief, England became football champions of the world by defeating West Germany 4-2 on Saturday at Wembley".
In her resignation statement, she declined to offer the customary expressions of praise and thanks to the prime minister, and instead declared that she wanted to "help the Labour party to reconnect with the British people, to remind them that our values are their values, that their hopes and dreams are ours too".
Worship includes expressions of praise, acknowledgments of the excellency of the divine, communion in the form of prayer, and the use of sacraments or visible objects that signify or represent the invisible sacred beyond them, feelings of joy and of peace expressed often in musical form, and sacrifice or the offering of gifts to the divine or in the name of the divine.
