Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American reformist Christian sect, the Mormon Church bases much of its teaching on an additional gospel called the Book of Mormon. Converting others to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is an important part of the religion...
Waits is playing with all kinds of innocence and perversion: one concert scene flashes between an emotional gospel tune and a simpering, streetcorner Bible thumper, also played by Waits; another shifts between Waits singing on stage, and, as Frank, mouthing the same song on the roof of a building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings...
...sound of American slavery is living very quietly on a dark side street in Brunswick, Ga. And a young black composer named Walter Robinson has come a thousand miles to hear it: tones, overtones, agony and all. Call it gospel, or call it the blues. The sound starts low and shades into the sky, leaving behind an ache or sprig of consolation. "That's the sound I want," he says, as he drives toward his destination...
...their friend is here. Doug, 51, is slated to play a major role in a folk opera that Walter has just completed, and the two men need to run through some changes in the score. In addition to this contribution, the Quimbys offer their visitor an entree to gospel singers in the small, isolated churches of coastal Georgia. Untrained choir singers such as these will be the stars of Walter's opera...
Delving into black history, Robinson believes, means honoring the black voice in all its suggestive power. Working through the gospel grapevine, he has recruited exceptional black singers from church choirs in half a dozen states in order to load his work with feeling. "Black churches are the museum of black life," he says. "There is nowhere else to go." Of 37 parts in the opera, only one, that of a slave master, is white...