Remembered as both a music educator and a composer of hymns, this nineteenth-century musician helped establish the Boston Academy of Music and was responsible for the popular musical setting of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," as well as for much-loved arrangements of the Christian hymns "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "Joy to the World." Before Fame He took his first church music director position when he was only seventeen years old.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up a national campaign council to ensure the party emerges victorious in the November 6 Anambra governorship election. The campaign council, headed by Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the APC candidate, Senator Andy Uba is victorious at the polls. The council has been approved by the National Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, Mai Mala Buni, and will be inaugurated on August 17, Naija News understands.

A new study on the cost of running for political office in Kenya has laid bare some disturbing facts about the country’s political organizing and implications for development. According to the research by leading governance experts Karuti Kanyinga and Tom Mboya, the more a person spends, the greater their chances of winning elections. To win a Senate seat, for instance, aspirants spend an overage of KSh 35.5 million. Secondly, many aspirants turn to politics as an avenue for personal enrichment and aggrandizement; contrary to the electorate’s expectation of service delivery by the elected leaders.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a rich London bachelor in the trailer for Wes Anderson’s upcoming short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Adapted from a collection of short stories, titled “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,” by acclaimed children’s fiction writer Roald Dahl, Anderson’s film premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this year — prompting a four-minute ovation — and will release on Netflix on Sept.

'Final Moments' Explores Aspiring Basketball Star Lamont Adair's Murder — Where Is His Killer Now? (EXCLUSIVE CLIP)By Chrissy BobicApr. 28 2022, Published 12:42 p.m. ET Source: Instagram / @u_rain_dropLamont Adair Perhaps you heard about the Lamont Adair case when it happened, but if not, Oxygen's Final Moments is now providing the details of his tragic death and the aftermath of his family scrambling to figure out what happened to him. We now know that a man by the name of Franklin Scott killed the aspiring pro basketball player, but where is he now?

In case you thought Netflix used some type of 'Lord of the Rings' height trickery to make Ava Michelle appear taller in ‘Tall Girl,’ you're wrong. Source: NetflixNetflix is just churning out original film after original film and they run the gamut of different genres. You've got the upcoming Steven Soderbergh flick, The Laundromat, which takes a humorous crack at the whole Panama Papers scandal, and on the other side of the spectrum, you've got feel-good teen flicks like Sierra Burgess is a Loser and now, Tall Girl.

The world's best Black indie artists make diverse, exhilarating, compelling, and well-crafted music. These music legends' most guarded secret to producing heart-soothing hits is experimenting with different types of music and genres. Many upcoming Black indie artists are inspired to grow the genre after observing the many megastars and multimillionaires it has made. The music now has an equally diverse audience, for it has gained acceptance among the most conservative communities worldwide.

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