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William Shatner is God. And Pharaoh. Just in time for Passover, the Jewish Music Group (a division of Shout Factory) has released “Exodus: An Oratorio in Three Parts,” performed by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. “It’s perfect seder entertainment,” Shatner said recently, but more than that, “it speaks to people of all religions. Exodus: An Oratorio” is divided into three parts: “Moses and Pharaoh,” “The Ten Plagues” and “Redemption.” The music mixes symphonic and sacred, modulating strings, choral voices and baritone solos to provide both uplift and ballast to the biblical material — as well as gentle musical transitions between some of Shatner’s narrative performances. “It was quite a happening,” Shatner recalled in a recent telephone interview.
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Shatner was born in Montreal, Canada, to Jewish parents and grew up in a kosher home. Although only 79 original episodes ran between 1966 and 1969, the “Star Trek” series cemented Shatner in the popular consciousness.
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Nonetheless, after the series was cancelled, and following a divorce, Shatner was forced to live out of his truck, performing summer stock. During this period, concerned that he had been typecast as Kirk, Shatner wandered in the wilderness, taking whatever roles he could.
More recently, Shatner hit gold again, portraying attorney Denny Crane on “Boston Legal,” a role he originated on the series “The Practice.” Shatner’s life has also had its share of tragedy: his third wife, Nerine, drowned after mixing valium and alcohol. Shatner recently told Details magazine that he didn’t “understand closure … we grieve forever.”
In 2004, Ben Folds produced “Has Been,” a collection of songs, many of which he co-wrote with Shatner, including featured guest performances by Joe Jackson and Aimee Mann. Itkin grew up in a conservative Jewish home, began writing music at 14 and conducting at 16. “We kept winnowing and winnowing the list” he said, “and Shatner’s name kept coming up. Itkin contacted Shatner, and it turned out that not only was he interested, he was available on the needed dates.
“It was intriguing,” Shatner recalled.
So with little preparation, other than years of reading the haggadah at seders, Shatner arrived in Little Rock the night before the first performance.
“He was great fun to be around,” Itkin recalled.
“On Saturday,” Shatner said, “everything fell into place.” “There’s no magic like a live audience,” Shatner says in the recording’s liner notes. Shatner recalled. In recent years, the immediate post-seder entertainment has been funny Passovers songs (like “There’s No Seder Like Our Seder” to tune of “There’s No Business Like Show Business”). This year may well find our seder going forth with Shatner and the “Exodus Oratorio.”
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I really liked the first track, it reminded me of the early 90's shoegaze scene. Not so big on the second one but it was OK.
And for the BQ, I guess I'm just growing out of The Smiths as much over the years as they just don't have the same appeal as 20 years ago. Gotta go with Joe Jackson on this one.
Only begotten is a fine translation in so far as it picks out a unique type of begetting, which is what the the NT indicates.
As an eastern Orthodox Christian I am quite aware of what the latin crusaders did in Constantinople. That aside, the war in principle was justified.
The problem you pose is only a problem if there is no difference between what a thing is and who a thing is, between whoness (person) and whatness (nature). Trinitarianism makes this distinction. God is one as to whatness but three as to whoness.
Consequently it can make sense quite [...]
I LOVE Aimee Mann. Thank you for posting this. What I love most about Mann's music is that not only is it exquisitely crafted, but she never sacrifices a catchy melody, and a great, memorable hook. Everybody makes a big deal about how sad her music is, but at the end of the day, Aimee Mann makes seriously good, (and inevitably underrated) pop music. She deserves all the Mann crushes she gets. (She puts on a great live show, too, if anybody is wondering.)
Indoctrination is not a fair or respectful way to raise a kid, even if you’re pushing a non-religion belief on them. One of the most frustrating arguments for an atheist is the “well, you have faith too!” argument, but in the case of a kid that’s had their atheistic beliefs derived solely from your beliefs that you’re pushing on them they *are* acting on faith because the decision was not their own. Unless you give the child access to any and all information and allow that child to make whatever decision about religion they think is wise, your kid isn’t [...]
What a pretty kettle of sandtrout this is! (a quote from Frank Herbert's novel Dune.) So, let's get this straight; Sony Picture is so cheap with regards to it's old TV programs (although it can give all of the attention to so-called 'modern classics' like The Shield when that's on DVD)that they farm it out to a sub-company that's as cheap as frack, to do the work that they should be doing themselves, simply because Route 66 is 40 years too old for them to pay consideration to.
If they wanted to have this released properly, they should have [...]
Interesting history indeed.The current Woodstock Playhouse is the second theater with that name to stand on the site. The original, which opened in 1927 and was the oldest continuously operated summer stock theater in the country, was destroyed by a predawn fire on Memorial Day in 1988. The fire was deemed suspicious, but no one has been charged with setting it.
I did not get any feeling of Utopia during the film. Utopia must have all conditions perfect, and that was clearly not the case throughout the film. Though it was not Utopia, it did feel like a sort of surreal setting. The musical transitions were smooth and really helped to define the film and its moral. The moral of the film is that freedom of expression and the freedom to live the lifestyle of your choice should be guaranteed to everyone, regardless of which path they choose.
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