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John Tavener, the Glossary

Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works.^[1]

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A Celtic Requiem

A Celtic Requiem (Requiem for Jenny Jones) is a requiem by the English composer John Tavener, written in 1969.

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Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is a British period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England.

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Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker.

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Allah

Allah (ﷲ|translit.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Annon Lee Silver

Annon Lee Silver (November 18, 1938 – July 28, 1971) was a Canadian lyric soprano singer.

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Apple Records

Apple Records is a British record label founded by the Beatles in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps Ltd.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire (motor car)

The Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire is a large automobile which was produced by the British company, Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited, from 1952 to 1960.

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Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Symphony Chorus

The BBC Symphony Chorus is a British amateur chorus based in London.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. John Tavener and BBC Symphony Orchestra are EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists.

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Beliefnet

Beliefnet is a Christian lifestyle website featuring editorial content related to the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news, and entertainment.

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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. John Tavener and Benjamin Britten are English classical composers of church music, English male opera composers, English opera composers and international Rostrum of Composers prize-winners.

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Bentley Mulsanne (1980–1992)

The Bentley Mulsanne is a large (performance) luxury saloon produced by Bentley Motors from 1980 until 1992, though derivative models including the Continental T and Azure continued in production into the 2000s.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress.

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Book of Jonah

The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament.

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Canticum Sacrum

Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis is a 17-minute choral-orchestral piece composed in 1955 by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) in tribute "To the City of Venice, in praise of its Patron Saint, the Blessed Mark, Apostle." The piece is compact and stylistically varied, ranging from established neoclassical modes to experimental new techniques.

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Carmina Burana (Orff)

Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

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Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is an American chamber orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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Child Okeford

Child Okeford (sometimes written Childe Okeford) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, east of the small town of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset administrative district.

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Children of Men

Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season.

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Church Fathers

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity.

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City Choir of Washington

The City Choir of Washington is a 140-member professional-level volunteer mixed symphonic choir in Washington, D.C. composed of singers from throughout the Washington metropolitan area.

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Coptic Orthodox Church

The Coptic Orthodox Church (lit), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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David Pountney

Sir David Willoughby Pountney (born 10 September 1947) is a British-Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales.

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Frithjof Schuon

Frithjof Schuon (18 June 1907 – 5 May 1998) was a Swiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Traditionalist School of Perennialism. John Tavener and Frithjof Schuon are Traditionalist School.

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Frognal

Frognal is a small area of Hampstead, North West London in the London Borough of Camden.

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Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, started on Saturday 6 September 1997 at 9:08am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey started tolling to signal the departure of the cortège from Kensington Palace.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.

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Gerard McLarnon

Gerard McLarnon (16 April 1915 – 16 August 1997) was an English-Irish actor and playwright.

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Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera is a professional opera company and charity whose base is West Horsley Place in Surrey, England.

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Gregorios Theocharous

Gregorios Theocharous of Thyateira and Great Britain (Greek: Γρηγόριος Θεοχάρους; 28 October 1928 – 20 November 2019) served as the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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Hampstead

Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

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Highgate School

Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Holst Singers

The Holst Singers are an amateur choir based in London, England.

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Homophony

In music, homophony (Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that provide the harmony.

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Honorary title (academic)

Honorary titles (professor, reader, lecturer) in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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In Alium

In Alium is a 1968 work by British composer John Tavener.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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Jaguar XJ

The Jaguar XJ is a series of mid-size/full-size luxury cars produced by British automobile manufacturer Jaguar Cars (becoming Jaguar Land Rover in 2013) from 1968 to 2019.

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Jean Biès

Jean Biès (1933 – 11 January 2014) was a French philosopher and author. John Tavener and Jean Biès are Traditionalist School.

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.

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John Rutter

Sir John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. John Tavener and John Rutter are EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists, English classical composers of church music, Ivor Novello Award winners and People educated at Highgate School.

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Kaval

The kaval is a chromatic end-blown oblique flute traditionally played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey, Kurdistan and Armenia).

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley CBE (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. John Tavener and Lennox Berkeley are composers awarded knighthoods.

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Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom

The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine Rite.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. John Tavener and London Symphony Orchestra are RCA Records artists.

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Magnificat

The Magnificat (Latin for " magnifies ") is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos.

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Manchester International Festival

The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester and run by Factory International.

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Marfan syndrome

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a multi-systemic genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue.

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Millennium celebrations

The millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events to celebrate and commemorate the end of 1999 and the start of the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar.

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Millennium Dome

The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium.

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Mother and Child (Tavener)

Mother and Child is a choral composition by John Tavener written in 2002 on a commission from the Tenebrae vocal ensemble.

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Mother Thekla

Mother Thekla (born Marina Sharf) (18 July 1918 – 7 August 2011), was a teacher, a nun and founder of the Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption in North Yorkshire, and spiritual muse of the composer Sir John Tavener.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.

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Names of God in Islam

Names of God in Islam (أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ, "Allah's Beautiful Names") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims.

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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO-GB) is the national youth orchestra of the United Kingdom, consisting of 164 members of ages 13 to 19 years.

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Neil Portnow

Neil R. Portnow is an American music industry executive who served as the chairman and CEO of The Recording Academy and MusiCares from 2002 to 2019.

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New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December.

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Ney

The ney (Ney/نی), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Egyptian Music, Persian music, Turkish music, Jewish music and Arabic music.

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Nicholas Daniel

Nicholas Daniel (born 9 January 1962) is a British oboist and conductor.

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NPR Music

NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio, an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, that launched in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for music discovery.

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Nunc dimittis

The Nunc dimittis, also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 29 through 32.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. John Tavener and Olivier Messiaen are EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists.

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Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino (born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer.

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Patricia Rozario

Patricia Maria Rozario is an Indian-born British soprano.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. John Tavener and Peter Maxwell Davies are 20th-century British composers, 21st-century British composers, composers awarded knighthoods, EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists, English male opera composers, English opera composers and Ivor Novello Award winners.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

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Pilgrimage (2001 film)

Pilgrimage is a 2001 documentary film by Werner Herzog.

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Psalm 121

Psalm 121 is the 121st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”.

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Register (music)

A register is the "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument, or group of instruments.

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Religious music

Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. John Tavener and Ringo Starr are Apple Records artists, composers awarded knighthoods and RCA Records artists.

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Roger Wright (music administrator)

Sir Roger William Wright CBE (born 15 August 1956) is an English arts administrator.

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Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is a full-size luxury car produced by British automaker Rolls-Royce in various forms from 1965 to 1980.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Sarum College

Sarum College is a centre of theological learning in Salisbury, England.

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Shofar

A shofar (from) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes.

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Song for Athene

"Song for Athene" (also known as "Alleluia. May Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest") is a musical composition by British composer John Tavener with lyrics by Mother Thekla, an Orthodox nun, which is intended to be sung a cappella by a four-part (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) choir.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London.

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Start the Week

Start the Week is a discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 which began in April 1970.

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Steven Isserlis

Steven Isserlis (born 19 December 1958) is a British cellist. John Tavener and Steven Isserlis are EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists.

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Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Temple Church

The Temple Church, a royal peculiar in the Church of England, is a church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar for their English headquarters in the Temple precinct.

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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Therese of Lisieux (Thérèse de Lisieux; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face), was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. John Tavener and The Beatles are Apple Records artists.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Lamb (Tavener)

The Lamb is a choral work written in 1982 by British composer John Tavener (1944–2013).

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute, K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Protecting Veil

The Protecting Veil is a late 20th-century classical composition for cello and strings by British composer John Tavener.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals.

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The Royal Opera

The Royal Opera is a British opera company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Tree of Life (film)

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American epic experimental coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick.

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The Veil of the Temple

The Veil of the Temple is a piece of choral music by British composer Sir John Tavener.

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The Whale (Tavener)

The Whale is a "dramatic cantata" written by the English composer John Tavener in 1966.

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Thunder Entered Her

Thunder Entered Her is a choral piece written by the English composer John Tavener in 1990.

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Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Traditionalism (perennialism)

Traditionalism posits the existence of a perennial wisdom or perennial philosophy, primordial and universal truths which form the source for, and are shared by, all the major world religions. John Tavener and Traditionalism (perennialism) are Traditionalist School.

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich, London, England.

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University of Winchester

The University of Winchester is a public research university based in the city of Winchester, Hampshire, England.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Washington National Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National Cathedral or National Cathedral, is an American cathedral of the Episcopal Church.

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Wayne McGregor

Sir Wayne McGregor, CBE (born 12 March 1970) is a British choreographer and director who has won multiple awards.

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Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Opera (WNO) (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru) is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales.

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Wembley

Wembley is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author.

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Westminster Cathedral

The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, known as Westminster Cathedral, is the largest Roman Catholic church in England and Wales and the seat of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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Winchester Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity,Historic England.

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1999

1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.

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2000 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2000 for the United Kingdom and New Zealand were announced on 31 December 1999, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2000.

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86th Academy Awards

The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tavener

Also known as John Kenneth Tavener, Sir John Tavener, Tavener, John.

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Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Protestantism

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