Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Daniel Blumberg, photographed in West Hollywood in November. (Ian Spanier / For The Times) If the Shakers have a lasting ...

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A small group of Shakers looking for a piece of land to base their operation are lost in the wild. By nightfall, the oldest, Hocknell (David Cale), seems to take leave of his senses, mumbling to ...

If modern Shakers don't want to be remembered "as a piece of furniture," perhaps they wouldn't mind being remembered as passionate musicians. Strict moral codes, celibacy and hard work appear, at ...

If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.” It stands to ...