Desire For Love

Sunday, May 20 Choir Concert: First Congregational Church, Green Street, Gardner; 4:30 p.m. Hear “Five Hebrew Love Songs” featuring Marcia Lehninger on the violin. Tickets are available at the door. For information email info@ggcchoir.org . Heroes Weekend: Davis Farmland, 145 Redstone Hill Road, Sterling; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Firefighters, police officers, armed service personnel and their families    .. more …

Two small muses guided Oakton vocalist Sarah Jebian in the creation of her first album, “Love Songs and Lullabies.”"My goal was to make an album that kids would enjoy listening to as well as their parents,” said Jebian, mother of two young daughters. “While each song is so meaningful to me, I hope other moms and dads, grandparents, aunts and uncles will connect as well. The music serves as a    .. more …

CAIRO (AP) ” The Algerian singer Warda , whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72.Egyptian state TV said Warda died Thursday at her home in Cairo. The official MENA news agency said she was 72, and that her body will be flown to Algeria on Friday for burial.Along with Lebanon’s Fayrouz and Egypt ‘s late Umm Kalthoum , Warda was one of the    .. more …

Religion & Music Most religions consider wedding ceremonies to be a form of worship service, and thus, are very strict about preserving the solemnity of the event. This is the reason why most churches do not allow the playing of popular love songs during the wedding. So, how do you choose songs that are not only religious in nature, but also focus on values and ideals related to love and    .. more …

WORCESTER — Boyz II Men will appear at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts at 8 tonight, crooning familiar RB love songs of the ’90s and some new ones. This marks their 20th year serenading the world with love songs, and heralds their first release in 10 years, “Boyz II Men Twenty” featuring Wanya Morris, Nate Morris and Shawn Stockman, under the label MSM Music Group/Benchmark    .. more …

Choral Arts of Chattanooga will conclude its season Sunday with “Come Away, Love,” a concert of love songs sung in four languages.The concert begins at 4 p.m. in First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1505 N. Moore Road.Director Keith Reas said that concertgoers will have the opportunity to meet Dr. Paul Leary of Duke University, composer for a setting for Shakespeare’s Sonnet 63, which Reas    .. more …

Encourage your pastor to tell us the upcoming week’s sermon topic. It’s FREE, and it’s open to churches throughout the Big Country. Email it to publishme@reporternews.com by 2 p.m. each Monday. Please put “sermon” in the subject line. Include the topic, who will deliver it, a short synopsis, when services begin and the name and street address of your place of worship.Belmont Baptist Church, 2117    .. more …

“Will he break my heart a little more by performing THAT song?” was my first, and focal, thought when attending Brian McKnight ‘s first night of a three-night concert series at New York City’s Blue Note jazz club on Wednesday (May 16). It seemed far from a coincidence that Brian McKnight was scheduled to perform at Blue Note, alongside the Duke Ellington orchestra, twice each of the three days, 24    .. more …

Lady Gaga isn’t the only person intimately familiar with bad romance. Millions of readers have been caught in the steamy embrace of the Fifty Shades books, dubbed “mommy porn” for the largely married, female audience hooked on the books’ kinky sex scenes. Apparently dog collars aren’t just for walking the Golden retriever.The trilogy – Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades    .. more …

Lady Gaga isn’t the only person intimately familiar with bad romance. Millions of readers have been caught in the steamy embrace of the Fifty Shades books, dubbed “mommy porn” for the largely married, female audience hooked on the books’ kinky sex scenes. Apparently dog collars aren’t just for walking the Golden retriever.The trilogy – Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades    .. more …