Word: gospels
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...Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, a 90-member choir dedicated to the expression of black creativity and spirituality through song, are singing for their latest concert entitled “Brighter Day.” The songs will include African folk songs, traditional and contemporary gospel and original compositions. Tickets $12 regular, $8 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...production (directed by Joe Mantello) beyond including a new song, Something Just Broke, written for the 1992 London version. It's a nice addition to a score that is (oddly, given the subject) one of Sondheim's most tuneful and accessible, with its stylistic echoes of American folk ballads, gospel hymns, Sousa-style marches and turn-of-the-century waltzes. Sondheim has little patience for the long-voiced criticism that many of his scores abandon melody for astringent experimentation. "I do what is required for each show," he says. Besides, melody is "a very tricky word," he says. "When someone...
After failed attempts at courting donors, Dunster enlisted the help of the ambitiously titled Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. The Society suggested a method for procuring funds: all Dunster had to do was take American Indian students into Harvard and deep-pocketed donors would step forward. The more these students knew English, the Society’s thinking went, the more they’d be able to read the gospel...
...FILM: The Gospel According to Janis...
...Breaking the Waves and Bjork in Dancer in the Dark. Grace is the beneficiary of the townspeople's Christian charity, then the victim of their envy, malice, lies and sadism. She stoically endures a spate of abuse nearly as long and relentless as Jesus' in the Mel Gibson gospel. Her resurrection, though, takes a different, darker turn...