Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sung by a cast of young Broadway-style performers, is a radical departure from the expansive minimalism that marked his earlier stage works. The title song, for example, is a syncopated chorus that could have come straight from Broadway, while A Sermon on Romance is a foot-stomping gospel shout. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man, sung by the Vietnamese lawyer (the dynamic Welly Yang), has an almost rap-like ferocity that contrasts poignantly with a touching number like Consuelo's Dream, sung by the Salvadoran immigrant (Sophia Salguero). Adams has long shown a fondness...
Such meetings are not confined to the Bible Belt. Last month, for instance, 20 activists braved the rain to attend a showing at the Bethel Full Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, and that was just one of 12 downlink sites in what is supposed to be a liberal state. The meeting began when the county chairman, Tom Jessop, bowed his head and said, "Let's come together in prayer." But he moved quickly to such topics as how to become a Republican committeeman and how to "blitz E-mail." Indeed, the group was nothing like the Coalition members uncharitably...
...believes in miracles because the last of several boys in her family was graduating from college, despite the fact that so many young black men are on drugs, in jail or dead. Stroupe also changed Oakhurst's music, switching from stiffer Presbyterian hymns to songs from the black gospel tradition. At first the choir director resisted, purposefully playing off tune during gospel hymns. Now the church has its own mostly black gospel choir. No one in it knows how to read music, but they learn songs "by ear" and sing them from the heart. And, by most accounts, the music...
...says Stroupe. "We are proclaiming a different reality." This month, Stroupe is releasing a new book on ethnicity in America titled While We Run This Race: Countering the Power of Racism. But the real lesson of Oakhurst isn't on a page, it's in the spirit of the gospel music swelling out of the church every Sunday at 11 a.m. Anyone who wants to learn this tune is going to have...
...took Ec 10, and the Gospel according toProfessor Feldstein says I don't owe WBURanything. And according to the doctrines ofclassical economics, I'm certainly not going tothrow my hard-earned money away when I can let myfellow listeners do it instead...