Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vivian Reed, a sizzling, sinuous singer-actress-clown-tap dancer, alone turns Bubbling Brown Sugar into a mousse to remember. She was singing gospel at churches around her native Pittsburgh by the age of eight, and studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute before winning a three-year Juilliard scholarship. "I had aspirations of going to the Met and being Leontyne Price," she recalls, "but I switched to popular music and blues because it gave greater freedom of expression and I liked the audience." A veteran of the resort and supper-club circuit, she has a new album. Brown...
...Bother Me, I Can't Cope, is a musical and revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing, to mention a few. Sound impressive? It is. It is playing Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston...
Anyone who has ever crooned in a shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
...full years, these four Mormons followed a strict regimen: Up at five or six in the morning; after washing, an hour and a half of Gospel study unti breakfast at 7:30 or 8:00. Followed (since none of the four speaking countries) by two to three hours of language lessons. The missionaries, armed with seven basic memorized lessons about their religion, would then go out into the country to spread their Gospel, sometimes staying out until after midnight...
...other significant feature of Dream is to remind us of how deeply Christianity is ingrained in the spirit of U.S. blacks. The songs of the Gospel are the most moving and powerful moments in the play. Among Southern whites, themselves steeped in the Christian tradition, the principle that every soul is equal in the sight of God produced an in exorable momentum toward progress in desegregation. While I Have a Dream is negligible as drama, it is very bracing as a lesson on how U.S. democracy works...