Sentence examples for singing congregation from inspiring English sources

By singing a spontaneous congregational song at the end of a sermon – the traditional emotional apex of the ritualized event – Obama performed a familiar trope that united his immediate audience – mostly black church-goers – with their history, that joined himself to that history, and that staged social solidarity among the musicians and the singing congregation.

Amen, sang the congregation.

She does sing in "Congregation," which will be shown next Tuesday and Wednesday, but her mellow yet forceful voice doesn't have the airy, Kewpie-doll pertness we've come to associate with Bollywood.

The presentation of flowers at the festival lasts into the wee hours of the morning, when, at sunrise, the faithful gather for a mass that concludes with the congregation singing "Las Mañanitas", the traditional Mexican birthday song, to Our Lady.

A woman started singing before the congregation, her voice, loud and passionate, filling the room.

Its co-writer, Richard Manuel, plays organ, which is appropriately far back in the mix, as if we are hearing the congregation singing spontaneously, closer to the exit than to the altar.

His Bar Mitzvah last year — which was completely homegrown, eclectic, held in a church, led by a female Rabbi with whom we've become close, with readings from Coleridge and Hannah Szenes, as well as the whole congregation singing Leonard Cohen's "Broken Hallelujah" with my son playing his ukulele and me on the piano — was one of the highlights of my life.

We four siblings spoke, our short speeches punctuated by the congregation singing Mom's favorite hymns.

Polyphony was incorporated into editions of the Psalter from 1625, but usually with the congregation singing the melody and trained singers the contra-tenor, treble and bass parts.

There is evidence that polyphony survived and it was incorporated into editions of the Psalter from 1625, but usually with the congregation singing the melody and trained singers the contra-tenor, treble and bass parts.

Instead of the congregation singing hymnals from a book, a guy with gelled hair and dog tags hanging around his neck led a band that played MGMT and Arcade Fire rip-offs with religious lyrics that scrolled across the movie screen like it was a karaoke party for Jesus.