hymns

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The evangelist Billy Graham solidified his appeal by supplanting hymns with the style of music to which teens and young adults flocked; Broadway even chimed in with the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

That scientist was annoyed that the scraps of paper he used to mark hymns for his church choir would fall out by Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

She met Ruben when she was a child, when he would come to their school to sing religious hymns in assembly and ran a church club in Clifton in Nottingham.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Each song in “The Testament of Ann Lee” is infused with stirring resonance, courtesy of Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg, who worked with music partially adapted from traditional Shaker hymns.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman