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Bing's Gospel. In addition to Susannah, the repertory for the company's first 37-week season includes such standards as Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Cinderella. In all, the singers will perform a total of 250 times, rotating roles...
...other aim is to spread the gospel of opera across the country. "Our real ambition," explains Bing, "is that in a number of years this company will no longer be necessary. If, in due course, it can inspire local companies, if it is able to persuade the American public that one can have great opera without stars, then it can disband because it will have done...
...hadn't been using my voice," said Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 53. "Just a little humming around the house. The muscles were all relaxed, and I wondered how it would come out." After eleven months' convalescence following a heart attack, Mahalia was still a little weak and scaled down from her old 250 Ibs. to a relatively gaunt 160 Ibs. She needn't have wondered about her rich contralto: it came out just fine. To save her the wear of traveling to studios on the East or West coasts, Columbia Records hauled some special tape equipment...
...peace lies between the extremes, between Russia's evolutionary progress and China's hard adherence to a fundamentalist philosophy. In the struggle for power and legitimacy throughout the Communist world, Moscow and Peking could in time be locked in a bitter internecine contest to re-establish the gospel of Lenin in all its belligerent purity. In appeal and purpose, Communism today is unquestionably a failing creed. Yet it is precisely in decline and decay that ideologies, like empires, can prove most dangerous...
...Mark, describing the Resurrection, are relegated to a footnote in the Protestant RSV. The Catholic edition restores them to the text, although a note explains that the passage is not found in all ancient manuscripts. Most Biblical scholars believe that the lines are a later addition to the original Gospel...