Sentence examples for play hymn from inspiring English sources

One of the best examples of Green's ability to write in a darker mode and reach for tragic power can be found in his one-act play "Hymn to the Rising Sun," which opens on Thursday at La MaMa.

The only thing I could play, hymn-wise, on the piano was Abide With Me, and it's very similar in chordal technique É "For a long time I enjoyed the idea of God.

I said I didn't want to give sermons and play hymns, and suggested that we engage people, tell their stories and play rock 'n' roll.

When we play hymns, there are lyrics, and my dad always used to tell me that I should say the words through the bell of my horn.

She wanted me to play hymns for the ladies' sewing circle that met every Thursday, and she bought the piano for six dollars, and she paid a lady up the street five or ten cents a lesson to teach me to play four hymns, 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus,' 'Rock of Ages,' 'The Old Rugged Cross,' and I can't think of the other one.

Or, how, on the Saturday after 9/11, holed up in Camp David, after a day of intense meetings, "Condi Rice, the daughter of a presbyterian minister, took a seat at the piano and began to play hymns", while attorney general John Ashcroft "encouraged us all to hum and sing".

After Titanic struck the iceberg the band began to play bright music, dance music, comic songs – anything that would prevent the passengers from becoming panic-stricken ... various awe-stricken passengers began to think of the death that faced them and asked the bandmaster to play hymns.

Play hymns.

He built a small chamber organ at home on which the precocious John used to accompany him when he played hymn tunes on the violin.

The church organist played hymns on Paul's piano, concluding with "Over the Rainbow".

Playing hymns to someone strapped to a chair wouldn't make them a Christian".