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The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה, ʾĒḵā, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. [1] In the Hebrew Bible , it appears in the Ketuvim ("Writings") as one of the Five Megillot ("Five Scrolls") alongside the Song of Songs , Book of Ruth , Ecclesiastes , and the ...
[4] Stravinsky composed Threni in 1957–58 for the Venice Biennale, and it was first performed there in September 1958. A performance in Paris two months later was a disaster, attributed to inadequate performers and insufficient rehearsals. It led to mutual recriminations between Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, and Robert Craft.
Matthew Hunter, a viola soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic, set the Tallis Lamentations to be played by an ensemble of Stradivari violins, violas and violoncellos. The arrangement is for two antiphonally set string quintets. The group plays this piece only a couple of times every two years, when they can get the instruments together. [2] [3] [4]
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Lamentations 4:14–15 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
[4] Ugolino Lorenzetti, c. 1350. The Deposition of Christ, where the body is being taken down from the cross, shown almost always in a vertical or diagonal position still off the ground, was the first scene to be developed, appearing first in late 9th century Byzantine art, and soon after in Ottonian miniatures. [5]
Laments for Josiah is the term used in reference to 2 Chronicles 35:25.The passage reads: "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United Nations has "great potential" but has to "get their act together," as he stopped U.S. engagement with the U.N. Human ...
The Ethiopic Lamentations of Jeremiah (Geʽez: Säqoqawä Eremyas) [1] is a pseudepigraphic text, belonging to the Old Testament canons of the Beta Israel [2] and Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It is not considered canonical by any other Judeo-Christian-Islamic groups.