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...Sung powerfully over the repetitive picking of a trebly guitar, "Property of Jesus" might easily be dismissed as more divine drivel. Yet the autobiographical content of the piece is striking and poignant. It cannot leave one neutral...
...City, via the magic of television. Francis Albert Sinatra. The Chairman can't really be classed with Wayne and Tony. He is them plus talent, class, and a little subtlety, cool sophistication one step above rhinestoned trying-very-hard glamor. Sinatra sings "New York, New York," which will be sung by at least six other performers during the show, and does it a little wryly, not just the simple "If I can make it there I can make it anywhere" Babbitry of his imitators. But he doesn't stay long, and soon Joey Heatherton is on stage, and Ben Vereen...
...Chicago-area machine tool distributor with nationwide offices, hired the Eastern Onion Singing Telegrams company of Bethesda, Md., to bring its message to 74 undecided Congressmen, DoALL's local branches had been hurt by the business slump, and they favor the President's tax plan. Their ditty, sung to the tune of The Yankee Doodle Boy, concluded: "You'll have a job for every man/ So just say 'Aye'/ Don't be a slob/ Someday you might have Reagan's job/ So please vote for Reagan's tax-cut plan." Six singers...
Philip Glass's Satyagraha is not your standard opera. For one thing, it is sung in Sanskrit. For another, it dramatizes Mohandas Gandhi's struggle against racial discrimination in South Africa between 1893 and 1914. The libretto is drawn entirely from the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred Hindu text that served as the moral authority for Gandhi's nonviolent resistance movement-called Satyagraha, after the Sanskrit words for truth and firmness. But perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the opera, given its American premiere at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y., last week, is the music itself. Melodically sensuous, harmonically...
Satyagraha is certainly appealing, indeed beautiful. The score glows with a spiritual luminosity rarely encountered in this secular, anxious age, and its inner peace harmonizes with the tenets of the Bhagavad-Gita being sung and the goals of Gandhi's revolution acted out onstage. The opera's three acts (seven scenes) trace the beginnings of the Satyagraha movement during Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa: the founding of the Tolstoy Farm commune, the increasing resistance to discrimination against Indians, the climactic Newcastle march of 1913 in which Gandhi led striking miners in protest against restrictive racial...