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This program is a serious comedy about gospel, gender, and going home. Sister Glen Moore's dying wish includes a eulogy by Jesse Jackson, a spiritual delivered by "the big opera star" Benita Cross, and a final face-to-face encounter with her estranged mother, the redoubtable Mrs. Gertrude Hudson. Reverend Dexter of Brooklyn's New Canaan Church must rely on his full reserves of wisdom, patience, and heavenly guidance to negotiate the late sister's...
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This program explores gospel musician Kirk Franklin's tumultuous life and the lives of those around him. He was introduced to the world of music in his early days living in Texas under his religious aunt's roof. But Franklin was not always a saint and ran the streets for years until he saw a close friend lose his life to gunfire. It was then that he began to reevaluate his life and took his signature brand of gospel to the next level. This video contains...
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Compiled in the 11th century, The Song of Roland is perhaps the world's most famous portrait of early European chivalry, piousness, and militarism. This beautifully produced program offers an abridged English version of the battlefield epic, combining richly textured medieval and Renaissance art images with scholarly summaries and interpretations of the work's major sections. Acknowledging the poem's historical inaccuracies, the video nevertheless...
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Deeply rooted in African rhythms, the first gospel music, as sung on southern plantations, expressed the collective sorrow of American slaves, and the history of their diaspora. Using narration and thrilling performance footage, these programs trace the 200-year history of gospel music from black churches, to the civil rights movement, to its influence on modern jazz, blues, and rock and roll. Its revolutionary sounds and joyful vocal styles are featured...
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Spirituals have been described both as the literature of American slavery and as the jewels that the slaves brought out of bondage. Today, the harmony, percussive precision, and evangelical fervor of gospel music have made it a hit all around the world. This program spotlights two venerable groups-The Sterling Jubilee Singers and The Four Eagle Gospel Singers-and climaxes with a Sunday gospel quartet celebration. Additional performers include the...