Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John the Divine. To make up for the fact that the late Mahalia Jackson had died last January before she could sing a promised benefit concert at the cathedral, 4,000 admirers came to hear Duke Ellington read the Bible and Clara Walker and Delores Hall sing gospel tunes. Then they prayed and clapped happily in time with the music. Said Rutgers University Professor Samuel Proctor, who delivered the sermon: "It was joyful music, a joyful occasion, as joyful as Mahalia's own life and music were...
...They were never prominent in the live mix, but they added occasional embellishments to a decidedly unembellished music. And when they did, their contributions were both fresh and tasteful, like the guitar-sax phrase traders in "Lovin' Me," and the chorus on "Peace of Mind," with its slightly mournful, gospel tinge. Clarke played a pretty flute transition between "To Make a Woman Feel Wanted," and "Peace of Mind...
...night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained end while a cellmate giggles vacantly and the chorus sings a gospel hymn...
...girl out of work, Carmines seems to say. She led no armies, won no victories (not even philosophical ones), and her death succeeds only in radicalizing her mother. Can Carmines make much of an evening of such material? He can and does. He puts together gospel music, ballads and burlesque, juxtaposing idiocy and idealism. He gets good acting and excellent singing from his cast, but Carmines himself is the best show. He sings, acts the Greenwich Village minister and, scrunched over a grand piano in the dark of the Circle in the Square the ater, plays the music...
...poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format, big type and plenty of white space, rewrote some passages, and dropped most Old Testament references. The reputable firm of Pocket Books has 100,000 copies of this rip-off in print. A better bargain...