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Passion fruit
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passion music
passion music choral music whose text depicts events immediately surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus. The earliest passions, composed from the 9th to the 14th cent., were monophonic and employed the actual biblical text of one of the four Evangelists. Polyphonic passions originated in England in... Read more |
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Passions
PASSIONS PASSIONS. In the twenty-fifth of his Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733), Voltaire took on the defense of human nature against the seventeenth-century philosopher Pascal's misanthropic vision, which was centered around the notion of original sin. Intellectual acuity and strong... Read more |
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Passion play
Passion play genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages into modern times. Its subject is the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Passion plays were first given in Latin. By the 13th cent. they included German verses, and 200 years later the entire play was... Read more |
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Tamar
Tamar , in the Bible. 1 Mother of Judah's twin sons Pharez and Zerah. An alternate spelling is Thamar. 2 Daughter of David and Maachah. She was the victim of her half brother Amnon's passion. 3 Daughter of Absalom.... Read more |
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Gust
Gust sudden outburst. See also rack . Examples: gust of fire, 1674; of grace, 1807; of grief, 1715; of hope, 1705; of joy, 1789; of passion, 1783; of pleasure, 1704; of sin, 1639; of smoke, 1811; of sound, 1849; of tears, 1870; of unholy passion, 1852; of temptation, 1681; of water, 1610; of... Read more |
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Passion cycle
Passion cycle in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most ambitious of projects. The scenes depicted generally include the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the washing of his feet,... Read more |
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Julien Benda
Julien Benda , 1867-1956, French novelist and critic. A humanist and rationalist, he led a sustained attack against the romantic philosophy of his time, especially that of Bergson. In The Treason of the Intellectuals (1927, tr. 1928) he accused his contemporary thinkers of abandoning truth and... Read more |
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Cerinthus
Cerinthus , fl. c.AD 100?, Jewish-Christian religious leader, b. Ephesus. He held tenets influenced by Gnosticism and similar to those of the Ebionites. He taught that the Christ descended into Jesus at his baptism and left him again before the Passion.... Read more |
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Seth
Seth in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, father of Enosh. In the chronology in the Gospel of St. Luke, Seth is an ancestor of Jesus. The Nag Hammadi codices preserve revelatory discourses ascribed to or allegedly emanating from Seth. The Second Treatise of Seth emphasizes the docetic nature of the... Read more |
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Pärt, Arvo
...20 str. (1980); Tabula rasa, double conc., 2 vn. (or vn. and va...and CHAMBER MUS.); St John Passion, ten., bass, vocal qt., ch., ob., bn...cont., counterten., ten., bass (1984); Stabat Mater, sop... |
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Martinů, Bohuslav (Jan)
...Mirandolina (1953–4); The Greek Passion (1956–9); Ariadne (1958...Concerto Grosso (1937); Double Concerto, 2 str. orch...to St James, sop., alt., bass, narr., ch., ens. (1954...Gilgamesh, sop., ten., bar., bass, ch., orch. (1954–5... |
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Winemaking with a passion: Colin Bass traces the history of Neudorf...
...iconic National Radio. "I was lucky enough to be selected for a management training course," Judy recalls. "After a day of double entry general ledger training I knew it wasn't the future for me." It didn't take much for the two to agree on a future... |
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From the Bard to the Barn Dance; Howard Bass Plucks Notes From History
...answer to the name Howard Bass. Watch him in a church...But more unexpectedly, Bass's youthful guitar passion also awakened him to...I took it home," Bass recalls, "and this...by the lute, whose "double strings give it more... |
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Barry White, romantic bass vocalist, dies at 58
...In The Rain With The One I Love with his deep bass voice filled with passion. Other hits during the `70s were You're the...creditable job. The Icon Is Love was certified double platinum during the `90s. Funeral arrangements... |
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Double bass virtuoso composes stellar career
...world-class double bass virtuoso. It will definitely...the famously daunting double bass as a showy solo...haven't been enough double bass virtuosos at large...agrees about the lack of double ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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CORIN LONG ; High-spirited double-bass player
...principal double-bass of the Royal Philharmonic...His influence as a double-bass player, teacher...1966, Long took up the double-bass aged eight and...Grade VIII on both the double-bass and ... |
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"COLBURN DOUBLE BASS ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT".
...concert with the Colburn Double Bass Ensemble. The ensemble...playing six-foot tall bass fiddles. Led by Dr. David...Young, also the principal Bass for LA Opera, writes and...levels and do so with a passion and creativity that can... |
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Double Bass: A Conversation with Baritone Christian Hilz
...later I started to learn double bass, perhaps the only orchestra...did the St. Matthew Passion by Schütz. We worked...concert, he poured out the passion in the music. The audience...Bach's St. Matthew Passion. My first real opera... |
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'Passion' is 'Double Life' for dummies.(Scene)
"Passion of Mind." Rated PG...stars (out of four) "Passion of Mind" or "The Double Life of Demi," as...s far superior "The Double Life of Veronique...co-written by Ron Bass ("Waiting to Exhale...Doublemint gum, the film doubles ... |
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Leading double lives; Just the Job: Fiona McNeill speaks to three people who...
...administrative side of the music industry while indulging his passion for performing in his own time. As many of his colleagues at...existence as an office temp with her evening work as drum 'n' bass DJ Mis-Red in pubs and clubs brings its own problems. "I... |
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Double your pleasure, double your fun
...Chang, Ph.D., author of The Passion Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide...Developing, and Living Your Passion (Jossey-Bass, 2001). When you engage in...purely for the joy of it, your passion is content-based. You don... |
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