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The Secular Masque; King’s Ode for the New Year; Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (Overture); Birthday Ode for George III (Overture)
Verses 21-25 The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 ( B)“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.” Such fresh immediacy is pounced on by The Hanover Band and irradiated by Halstead’s musicianly grasp of episodic character…Well worth investigating.” Gramophone March 2002
Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to ( G)the mountains, 18 and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; 19 whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; 20 whether the land is [ d]rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. ( H)Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. The United States of America was created from thirteen British colonies and as such, the number thirteen is a commonly recurring motif in American heraldry. For example, there are thirteen stars on the Great Seal of the United States and there are thirteen stripes on the American flag. Requiem; Symphonies Nos 40 and 41; Horn Concertos 1-4; Fragment in E KV494a; Clarinet Concerto in A; Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Serenata Notturna This is an excellent set, intelligently assembled, scrupulously prepared, lucidly recorded, played with a freshness and wit that serve these pieces well.” GRAMOPHONE January 1996
Rossini Overtures] have rarely been heard in our day with the range and definition of instrumental colour offered here. The sudden accents have real bite, and Rossini’s distinctive combining of different instruments in the same melody emerges as particularly piquant… Assassins (2010) - Takashi Miike | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie , retrieved August 10, 2020 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.