oratorio

They took her to the ancient concerts by way of a treat, and to the oratorio, and to St.

The genius of nature was paramount at the oratorio.

Caleb was very fond of music, and when he could afford it went to hear an oratorio that came within his reach, returning from it with a profound reverence for this mighty structure of tones, which made him sit meditatively, looking on the floor and throwing much unutterable language into his outstretched hands.

We were perpetually talking of our Oratorios, and they were perpetually talking of their Symphonies.

She had considerably improved her mind by study; she had not only read all the modern plays, operas, oratorios, poems, and romances--in all which she was a critic; but had gone through Rapin's History of England, Eachard's Roman History, and many French Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire : to these she had added most of the political pamphlets and journals published within the last twenty years.

It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios. The nighthawk circled overhead in the sunny afternoons -- for I sometimes made a day of it -- like a mote in the eye, or in heaven's eye, falling from time to time with a swoop and a sound as if the heavens were rent, torn at last to very rags and tatters, and yet a seamless cope remained; small imps that fill the air and lay their eggs on the ground on bare sand or rocks on the tops of hills, where few have found them; graceful and slender like ripples caught up from the pond, as leaves are raised by the wind to float in the heavens; such kindredship is in nature.

The famed oratorio Messiah by Baroque composer George Handel is coming to Dubai Opera on December 8, 260 years after Handel's death.

The Rochester Oratorio Society has named Eric Kesler as its first executive director.