CHICAGO (WLS) -- The electrifying "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is coming to the Lyric Opera of Chicago next week. The new age opera is praised as a groundbreaking achievement of color and culture. It's ...
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This gospel set covers a wide range of approaches: from contented to contemptuous, sessions to field recordings, fevered shouts to ruminative moans. Save this story Save this story Fire in My Bones ...
“Love with a laugh only goes so far.” Those eight words, which I heard sung Thursday night from the stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, have interfered with my sleep. They convey a great truth about ...
With Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007), compiler/producer Mike McGonigal uncovers rare, unself-conscious gospel that even a nonbeliever can be moved by. In ...
The core cause of Charles Blow’s inner conflict in the Metropolitan Opera’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” stems from sexual abuse, a subject egregiously overlooked when it comes to African-Americans — ...
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"Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not ...