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...At the Barbican, MacMillan conducted the first UK performance of his Fiat Lux, following its premiere last year at Costa Mesa, California, where it marked the rededication of Christ cathedral....
...The works span the diversity of his artistic practice, including preparatory costume drawings for ballet productions and theatre sets....
...But earlier this month President Emmanuel Macron announced that the cathedral of Notre-Dame would finally reopen to visitors on December 8....
...The late Japanese architect Kenzo Tange said that buildings “must have something that appeals to the human heart”. Tokyo, where he made his name, offers plenty to set hearts aflutter....
...Performances of his sacred music in cathedrals have already been lost, but English Touring Opera had other ideas....
...So many themes harmonised or came full circle in Chagall’s cathedral windows: Jewish and Christian, modernism and tradition, figuration and abstraction, the impetus of the sacred in a secular society craving...
...For the past 105 years Hua Lamphong, the airy neo-Renaissance creation of Italian architect Mario Tamagno, has suffused the Thai rail travel experience with something approaching the sacred....
...Even the Bauhaus manifesto featured an expressionist church on its cover, “The Cathedral of Socialism”. It is safe to say that the church is today nowhere near the heart of contemporary urban culture....
...Yet of the millions of tweets and Instagram videos and broken-heart emojis posted during the hours in which it seemed the whole building might be lost, one of the most poignant comments I saw quoted “Cathedral...
...Putin kissed it in Moscow’s main cathedral as crowds lined up for hours outside....
...Sacred steps Devotees hold candles and lotus buds as they walk around the giant statue of Gautama Buddha at the Phutthamonthon in Nakhon Pathom to celebrate Vesak day, which marks the birth of Lord Buddha...
...The Valle Sagrado — the “Sacred Valley” that connects Cusco to Machu Picchu — has become a place I know well....
...The scale was trimmed as it was realised that the bristling buildings would have emerged behind the sacred dome of St Paul’s as seen from Richmond Park....
...Unions including the moderate CFDT are angry, claiming this was never discussed during hours of preparatory talks with the labour ministry....
...In Delhi, at the church near our home, or at the Sacred Heart Cathedral near the Old Post Office in the heart of town, carol singers practise hymns in English and other Indian languages — “Silent Night”...
...Supporters of the proposal argue it would protect these historic sites, many of them sacred to the local tribes, while boosting tourism....
...Olkhon is the cathedral at Baikal’s heart, where each summer the region’s shamans gather and beat their drums. A ceremony was taking place half a kilometre down the beach from where we lodged....
...Saudi iconoclasm adds to the wealth of the ruling clan by permitting the construction of wedding-cake style towers surrounding the Kaaba, the sacred cuboid temple at the heart of Mecca....
...With this rich vegetal life came a succession of prosperous agricultural villages, each built around a temple complex the size of a small English cathedral, whose towers dwarfed the tiny, one-storey wooden...
...Accompanied by the drone of traditional gaida bagpipes and the beat of sacred drums, a semi-pagan ritual is played out as dancers enter a trance-like state before walking barefoot on to a pit of glowing...
...The temple is like a busy medieval cathedral but the mahant is anything but medieval....
...His sacred music, grounded in the cathedral choir tradition, is best represented by Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis on Delphian and a Mass for Westminster Cathedral on Hyperion....
...An arch-conservative, who built roads, hospitals and schools, Garcia officially consecrated his country to the Sacred Heart, made Catholicism a requisite for citizenship, and renamed his best regiments “...
...Although Zakopane has adapted well to the incursion of skiers, with swanky bars and ski shops, it’s still – at heart – an old mountain town....
...Beneath the beams of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Hall, a hundred singers take it in turns to lead the choral laments of the Sacred Harp hymn book, from which the event takes its name....
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