"Based on an adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus in the version by Robert Fitzgerald and incorporating passages from both Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Antigone in the versions by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald"--Insert. Featuring Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, J.J. Farley and the Original Soul Stirrers, the J.D. Steele Singers, the Institutional Radio Choir, and Little Village; with supporting soloists. Principally recorded live, Sept. 19, 1985, at the Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, as part of the American Music Theater Festival; the 9th-10th tracks recorded summer 1984, at Clinton and Soundworks Studios (previously released on Warner Bros. Records 25182[-1]). Compact disc. Booklet with synopsis, complete list of personnel, and lyrics in English ([12] p.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Now let the weeping cease (3:22). Fair Colonus (1:44) -- Stop do not go on (4:19) -- Who is this man (:40) -- How shall I see you through my tears (4:35) -- A voice foretold (6:26) -- Never drive you away (4:10) -- Numberless are the world's wonders (4:42) -- Lift me up (Like a dove) (3:55) -- Sunlight of no light (2:43) -- Eternal sleep (3:32) -- Lift him up (7:34) -- Now let the weeping cease (3:22).
Summary:
"The Gospel at Colonus reconceives Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as parable-like sermons on the ways of fate and particularly on a happy death. It is set in a Black Pentecostal church"--Program notes.
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