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Strobe lights, lasers, smoke machines and projected images of stars and planets and their jukebox-styled spaceship-and of animated chains, a woman's eye and a sort of neon soccer ball-reminded everyone that we were there to update and celebrate the golden days of rock show spectacle. "Evil Woman," the second song of the night, reassured the others that the hits would be heard. Despite having a stockpile of singles, Lynne knew he was playing to devotees and delivered as such.

3, the crowd was ready for the violins to be plugged in.ĮLO took the stage with "Tightrope," the anthemic opening cut from the 1976 album A New World Record, suggesting to the adoring audience that they weren't just going to be trotting out the hits. Still, after some less peppy pieces by Michael Ippolito and John Adams and Beethoven's Op. 5, the audience was for the most part respectfully quiet, and truly exploded in applause once they'd finished. The New York ensemble Attacca appeared promptly at 8, and shouts of "we love you, Jeff Lynne" and "louder" suggested either that some audience members didn't know there was an opening act or that they had well-baked senses of humor.īut as they played, quite impeccably, the fourth movement of Haydn's String Quartet Op. Give Lynne credit, too, for hiring a proper string quartet to fill the opening slot for the revival of his band, which built its famous sound on the intersection of Beatles-inspired rock music & amplified violins and cellos. That band, Jeff Lynne's ELO, hit Radio City Music Hall Friday night for the first of two performances (the second is tonight), with singing strings, glowing hits and an audience ready to receive. And then, in recent years, he had the cojones to reclaim his early fame and give himself top billing. Rather than fading away after his greatest commercial success in the 1970s-that being the Electric Light Orchestra-he had the wherewithal to play in a band with the likes of Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison (the Traveling Wilburys) and go on to produce Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor and fellow Wilbury Tom Petty, among many others. The ordinariate was established by Pope Benedict XVI for priests and laypeople from an Anglican background that enables them to retain elements of their Anglican tradition after entering the Catholic Church.You've got to give it to Jeff Lynne. Madden and current pastor of Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore, a parish of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. He is a former assistant to Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Father Scharbach also offers some counsel for families grieving the loss of a child.įather Scharbach is a former Anglican priest who joined the Catholic Church with his family and was ordained a Catholic priest in 2013.

George Matysek talks with Father Albert Scharbach, Isaac’s father, about his son’s extraordinary faith and the countless lives he has touched around the globe in his death. Joseph in Baltimore, was a gifted artist and iconographer who was considering a call to religious life when he was killed in an accident at 21.
