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@davidcavlovic.bsky.social

If you listen to J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio properly, the six Cantatas that make it up are supposed to be performed over six days from Christmas Day on.

November 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Rebecca Hart

@therebeccahart.bsky.social

Good things day 21: oratorio for living things at signature theatre, a grilled cheese on a cold afternoon, my moms medical treatment is good, a 45 minute walk by the river

November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Alissa Wilkinson

@alissawilkinson.bsky.social

Addressed herein: Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God, Oh Happy Day!, Saturday Church, Flaming September, Heaux Church, and Oratorio for Living Things (plus guest appearances from The Christians, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, and A Strange Loop)

November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM Everybody can reply

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bitch-king of angmar (her)

@wetropolitan.bsky.social

This year for Halloween I am “Girl Who Took On Too Many Other Projects And Still Has Memorization To Do A Week Before Rehearsals Begin On This One But Also Still Has To Practice Messiah and Christmas Oratorio Arias”

Very scary stuff. I’m gonna commit and go big on this costume 🙃

October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM Everybody can reply

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Westminster Abbey

@westminsterabbey.bsky.social

Tickets are on sale now for a seasonal performance of Handel's Messiah in here the Abbey on Tuesday 25 November, featuring the Abbey Choir, musicians from the Academy of Ancient Music and soprano Sophie Bevan.

To find out more and to book: www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-events...

A statue of George Frideric Handel in Westminster Abbey, depicting the composer standing and holding a copy of the score for his oratorio, Messiah

October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM Everybody can reply

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deMeligrana

@demeligrana.aldea.social

Lo mismo pasa en Granada, donde el meapilismo va creciendo exponencialmente, aunque también hayan crecido otras religiones (junto a mi casa abrieron una iglesia ortodoxa rumana y un oratorio musulmán) y siempre encuentras testigos de Jehová en cuadrilla con el tenderete de clases bíblicas gratis.

October 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM Everybody can reply

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Andy Boyle

@andymboyle.bsky.social

yeah andy, post that highly relatable shit, maybe mention your college choir performed liszt’s longest oratorio ever with the city orchestra, the people know what you’re talking about

October 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Nancy Preg

@nancypreg.bsky.social

This time for real … and self-censored … ;-)))

#OctoberLoveSong (of course!), plus seven more 12-inch-records.
#WeekendSingles (Part 33)
Take a look at the ALT texts.

The Pop Group – She Is Beyond Good And Evil / 3’38 (1979) // Crime + The City Solution – The Dangling Man E.P. (1985) // Angst (1983) // Clint Ruin / Lydia Lunch – Stinkfist / Meltdown Oratorio / Son Of Stink (1988)

Heaven 17 – I'm Your Money (Special Fortified Dance Mixes!) – I'm Your Money / Are Everything (1981) // Chris & Cosey – October (Love Song) (1983) // Patti Smith Group – Set Free (1978) // Colour Box – Shotgun / Keep On Pushing / Nation / Justice (1983)

October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Nancy Preg

@nancypreg.bsky.social

#OctoberLoveSong (of course!), plus seven more 12-inch-records.
#WeekendSingles (Part 33)
Take a look at the ALT texts.

October 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM Everybody can reply

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The Beatles Bible 🍏

@beatlesbible.com

22 October 1991:

Paul McCartney’s first classical music album, Liverpool Oratorio, is released in the USA.

It tops the US classical charts, but only reaches number 177 on the Billboard 200.

See more:

www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-...

Liverpool Oratorio

Recorded: 28-29 June 1991 Producer: John Fraser Released: 7 October 1991 (UK), 22 October 1991 (US) Personnel Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley, Willard White: vocals Royal Liverpool Ph...

www.beatlesbible.com

October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM Everybody can reply

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@senhordospasteis.bsky.social

Olha as dicas do #soletra passando na sua SL!

#diariodosoletra

1 preparar a terra para o plantio
2 extensão mais ou menos limitada de espaço, território ou superfície
3 movimento, ou parte, para voz solista que integra uma ópera, cantata ou oratório
4 suposto circulo de luz ou de energia que envolve o corpo
5 causar ou ter ira
6 cada uma das divisões de uma piscina olímpica
7 que não é comum; extraordinária
8 estado de rivalidade, de inimizade, de hostilidade entre duas pessoas
9 cair com ímpeto e rapidamente; desmoronar-se, despenhar-se, desabar
10 pessoa com nome de batismo idêntico ao de outra
11 relativa ao ar
12 ave multicolorida que ocorre na América Latina/armação para pendurar roupas
13 limpar ou polir, esfregando com areia ou algo similar
14 grânulos resultantes da desagregação de rochas siliciosas, graníticas ou argilosas
15 abrir e cavar para receber as primeiras águas do outono
16 brilhante como ouro, da cor de ouro, relativa a ouro
17 incorrer em erro, em engano
18 dotar de raia
19 composto químico produzido pelo fígado e excretado pelos rins na urina
20 soltar urros (o animal); bramir, rugir
21 aguardente típica do mundo árabe obtida pela destilação de fermentado de arroz
22 banho de cheiro a que filhos e filhas de santo se submetem durante a iniciação, nos candomblés de rito jeje e nagô
23 peixe de cauda delgada e três barbatanas que lembra uma pipa
24 colocar arreios em (cavalgadura); encilhar, selar
25 abaixar, fazer descer (algo suspenso ou levantado)
26 projetar ou construir ruas, loteamentos, caminhos em
27 abrir entalhe ou fazer marca em; entalhar, talhar, lavrar
28 clarear (tecido, roupa etc.) pela exposição à luz do sol
29 expressar a intenção ou a vontade de; desejar
30 tornar raro
31 dar forma de arco a
32 despejar(-se) até a última gota, esgotar(-se) inteiramente
33 dizer queixas, lamentos; lamentar-se
34 pedir por meio de requerimento

October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM Everybody can reply

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The New Yorker

@newyorker.com

“We are clearly in a time of desperate spiritual seeking, and it’s notable that so many have found answers inside the theatre.” Helen Shaw reviews two new off-Broadway productions, “Oratorio for Living Things” and “Oh Happy Day!”

Gospel Uplifts “Oratorio for Living Things” and “Oh Happy Day!”

Heather Christian and Jordan E. Cooper create two very different versions of spiritual inquiry.

www.newyorker.com

October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM Everybody can reply

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✨HEX @ Commissions Open !

@hexlix.art

In terms of power/authority it is:
1. Hymn (charity)
2. Minuet (patience)
3. Ballad (diligence)
4. Oratorio (chastity)
5. Elegy (kindness)
6. Aria (humility)
7. Requiem (temperance)

October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Maddie

@pepelogoo.bsky.social

Finally found where I packed these guys

Photo of plushes of Fei-Yen and Temjin from Virtual ON Oratorio Tangram

October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Gisele Silva Rumin

@silvarumin.bsky.social

Em um 17/10 como hoje, pelos idos de 1969, o quadro de Caravaggio Natividade com São Francisco e São Lourenço era roubado do Oratório de São Lourenço em Palermo.
#efemérides

October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Bryan Thomas

@munkiman.bsky.social

Happy Birthday to trumpeter, composer, educator & American culture advocate Wynton Marsalis, born October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, LA, into a family of esteemed musicians. I remember the day his debut LP arrived in the record store where I worked. A seismic shift in the jazz world. (More: alt text)

Growing up in the city where jazz was born, he developed a dual passion for jazz and classical music, receiving his first trumpet at age six and later attending the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City.

Marsalis quickly gained attention in both musical worlds, joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1980 before forming his own band in 1981.

he impact of Wynton Marsalis’ self-titled debut is immeasurable. Released 40 years ago, the album introduced the wider jazz world to a preening trumpeter from New Orleans whose playing synthesized the styles of some of the instrument’s greatest innovators, such as Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, and Lee Morgan.

The prophetic debut LP 'Wynton Marsalis' (Columbia, 1982) triggered a seismic shift in the jazz world, especially within the record industry.

The album’s success reignited a strong interest among major labels in signing young jazz artists who were interested in playing acoustic postbop. The LP’s artwork came with another throwback: eloquent liner notes, written by Stanley Crouch.

To bolster more excitement, Columbia released a complementary promo LP that featured Ed Williams interviewing Marsalis about the music.

In a remarkable display of his versatility, he made history in 1983 as the first artist to win Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical categories in the same year, a feat he repeated in 1984.

Beyond his career as a performer and recording artist, Marsalis has been a tireless champion for jazz and music education.

In 1987, he co-founded the Jazz at Lincoln Center program, which he has since led as its artistic and managing director. Under his leadership, Jazz at Lincoln Center has grown into an international institution with its own dedicated venue, Frederick P. Rose Hall, a home for performance, education, and broadcast.

Marsalis has also written and hosted educational television and radio series and published several books on jazz, demonstrating his profound commitment to teaching the history and principles of the music to a wide audience.

These are the ten albums I have by Marsalis in my iTunes library, among the dozens of recordings he's released over the years.

Marsalis's career is decorated with numerous accolades that reflect his significant impact on American culture. In 1997, he made history again by becoming the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio, 'Blood on the Fields.' He is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts (2005) and the National Humanities Medal (2015), and has been appointed a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

Through his work as a musician, composer, and educator, Marsalis has tirelessly worked to restore jazz to a central position in American life, using its principles of improvisation, cooperation, and the blues as a metaphor for democracy.

October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Orebody Inc.

@orebodyinc.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce that our 8-bit music rhythm action shooter, Oratorio, will be launching on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this year!

#nesdev #neshomebrew #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #retrogames #videogames

youtu.be/cLuPFXHE76o?...

Oratorio (New Rhythm Action Shooter for the NES) August Trailer

YouTube video by Orebody Inc.

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October 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

New day, new article! Here's a fresh piece on Dreamcast delight Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram, "...a riot of metal and lasers conveyed via clean lines and vivid colours":

ko-fi.com/post/Virtual...

October 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM Everybody can reply

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DJ TRiST

@dezm101.bsky.social

Cypher vs Apharmd B from Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram on Dreamcast #SEGA #retrogaming

October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM Everybody can reply

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New York Theater

@newyorktheater.bsky.social

Heather Christian, 44, composer, lyricist, playwright and vocalist whose Oratorio for Living Things is about to open in a revival at Signature, is one of 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards.

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

October 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM Everybody can reply

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ilinkcs

@ilinkcs.bsky.social

On my mind this evening
is #Mendelssohn, and his #Elijah #Oratorio
is The music (melodic and tempestuous)
is The singing (uplifting and on point)
is The message (unexpectedly humbling)
is The ambience (welcoming & forgiving)
and an unexpected personal realisation

#ElijahOratorio

October 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈

@michaelangie.bsky.social

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 4

Easter Oratorio (V: Seele, deine Spezereien) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvS9...

An exquisitely beautiful aria for soprano, very moving.