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...much appreciated the clarion call of sanity by [Methodist] Bishop Kennedy...
Whipped, with Love. Much of the joy, according to Leontyne's mother Kate, derives from the fact that Kate was singing hymns in the choir of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Laurel, back in 1927, when she felt the first pangs signaling the impending birth of Mary Leontyne Violet Price-a first child after 13 years of barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman...
...determination is undergirded by a powerful religious faith (she is the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers). She talks about "the Omnipotent" as naturally as if he were her neighbor. "I never go onstage," says Leontyne, "without saying a prayer-sometimes an extra prayer before arias like D'amor sull'ali rosee in Trovatore or O patria mia in Aïda." And the debut? "I just stood there in the wings and thought: 'Dear Jesus, you got me into this...
...knows that from time to time she must go home to Laurel again: it is the place where she feels she can be "just Leontyne." After the triumphs at Salzburg and Milan, she recalls, she made a flying visit and encountered a deacon of St. Paul's Methodist Church walking up South Fifth Avenue. "Hi, Leontyne," said the deacon. "Still singin...
...Methodist Kennedy, whose own denomination merged its major branches in 1939 to become the largest U.S. Protestant body, feels that one big church would be no house of harmony. "Relatives who get along fine when they come together at Christmas often have a bad time of it when they all move into the same house. Some of the worst in-fighting I have observed was not between leaders of different denominations but between leaders of the same denomination...