Word: odetta
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...divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording of Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child. The strength of Pasolini's Gospel rests on those moments when he forgoes static, calendar-art conventions to fill the screen with direct, provocative and eloquent glimpses of what a Biblical film might...
EASTER SPECIAL (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Folk songs and spirituals by Odetta, and the Easter services at Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, including a medieval mystery play, The Resurrection...
...ODETTA SINGS DYLAN (RCA Victor). In the space of a year or two, Bob Dylan, the prolific minnesinger from Minnesota, has refurbished the repertory of nearly every folk singer on record. Now Odetta lends her deep, dramatic voice to ten of his songs. She is as authoritative as the Delphic oracle in The Times They Are A-Changin', brave and bluesy in Walkin' Down the Line; but she melts the fierceness of Masters of War into a mere lament...
...faithful hummed, strummed and tapped sneakers as a single unit, outfitted not only with identical uniforms but with a mutual set of convictions that decry the injustices of war, segregation and cheating hearts. One by one, the cult's high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...
...pool table. The boss pays his performers only food and carfare, and the constantly changing program denies them even the salve of star billing. To pure folk singers, though, the problems are minor, and the Studio has become a shrine that wins the affectionate services of such stars as Odetta, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger when they pass through town. Bradley still has trouble explaining the source of his ambition. He gets a "re-truing" sense from folk songs, he says. But his success can be stated simply: for both audience and performers, the Studio offers the pleasure of making...