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On September 16, 1965, Briggs performed at the San Francisco Grace Cathedral. He performed as David in "David Danced Before the Lord With All His Might," alongside the Herman McCoy Singers, Jon Hendricks, and Duke Ellington's band. [8] Briggs almost didn't perform for personal reasons and beliefs, but Ellington convinced him to.
Some liturgical dance was common in ancient times or non-Western settings, with precedents in Judaism beginning with accounts of dancing in the Old Testament.An example is the episode when King David danced before the Ark of the Covenant (), but this instance is often considered to be outside of Jewish norms and Rabbinic rituals prescribed at the time.
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album five stars and stated "the concert taps into Ellington's roots in showbiz and African-American culture as well as his evidently deep religious faith, throwing it all together in the spirit of universality and sealing everything with the stamps of his musical signatures".
A Time to Dance: Ecclesiastes 3:4; Social Dance in celebration of what God has done: Exodus 15:20; Judges 21:21 - 23; In celebration before the Lord: 2 Samuel 6:14-16; 1 Chronicles 15:29; Social dancing in celebration of a god: Exodus 32:19; 1 Kings 18:26 (The act of celebrating a false god is condemned here) A child's dance: Judges 11:34; Job ...
The Nine Lessons, which are the same every year, are read by representatives of the college and of the City of Cambridge from the 1611 Authorized King James Version of the Bible. The service is broadcast live in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4 , and abroad on the BBC 's overseas programmes as well; it is estimated that each year there are ...
In an unexpected twist, the movie became a huge hit, Kozma said. Despite the holiday, audiences flocked to the theaters, thus beginning the association between Christmas and the movies.
LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar was poised for a big weekly gain on Friday, towering near one-year highs as a hawkish turn from the Federal Reserve chief sent short-term Treasury yields ...
This was not the full extent of his poor health. He was in a severely malnourished state and suffered with a list of other problems. Only when his body was exhumed by police in 2022 did the scale ...