Music
- Evangelist (Bach), the term for the tenor part in oratorios and Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach who narrates the Bible words in recitative, namely in the Christmas Oratorio, the St John Passion and the St Matthew Passion
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“I’ve come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I’ve never got there.... I’m always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.”
—Miles Davis (1926–1991)
“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)