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You can't sing it for them : continuity, change, and a church musician

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You can't sing it for them : continuity, change, and a church musician / the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University presents ; a film by Margot Fassler, Jacqueline Richard ; directed by Jacqueline Richard, Margot Fassler ; produced by Margot Fassler, Jacqueline Richard.
Publication
  • [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2010.
  • ©2010

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Additional Authors
  • Fassler, Margot Elsbeth
  • Richard, Jacqueline
  • Ramabhadran, Sachin
  • Warren, Taylor
  • Berryman, Jonathan Q.
  • Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950-
  • Molomot, Lisa
  • Hoyt, Jeff
  • Criscola, Jeanne
  • Yale Institute of Sacred Music, presenter, sponsoring body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre
  • Lilly Endowment, sponsoring body.
  • University of Notre Dame, sponsoring body.
Description
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in
Summary
Video follows Jonathan Q. Berryman, a "wisecracking, professionally trained Director of Music over the course of a year as he works tirelessly to revitalize his church's deteriorating choral program so that the entire breadth of African American sacred music can be sung. Because Messiah Baptist Church of Bridgeport, Connecticut is replete with animated and opinionated congregants and a new, charismatic minister, the film provides an entertaining but honest portrait of the life of a contemporary church musicians, while exploring the timeless topics of sacred repertoire, music education, religious calling, and personal and situational change"--Back cover. Includes interview and performance footage.
Alternative Title
Continuity, change, and a church musician
Subject
  • Berryman, Jonathan Q
  • Messiah Baptist Church (Bridgeport, Conn.)
  • African American Baptists > Biography
  • Choral conductors > Biography
  • Music > Religious aspects
  • African American church musicians
  • Choral music > United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographical films.
  • Documentary films.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • DVD extras: Interview with Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim, ethnomusicologist and leading authority on African American sacred music ; Downloadable study guide with discussion questions, suggested readings, audio databases, and a linkography ; Downloadable biographies of archival audio and visuals in the film.
Credits (note)
  • Edited by Lisa Molomot, Jacqueline Richard ; director of photography, Jeff Hoyt ; location sound, Dennis Hrbek ; graphic design, Jeanne Criscola ; technical production manager, Sachin Ramabhadran ; sound mixing, color correction and animation, Taylor Warren ; soundtrack performance, Jonathan Q. Berryman ; grant from The Lilly Endowment, Inc. ; additional funding provided by The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The University of Notre Dame.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewees, Jonathan Q. Berryman and 6 others.
Event (note)
  • Live footage recorded at Messiah Baptist Church (Bridgeport), Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School (New Haven), Cody's Diner (New Haven), Bruce Museum (Greenwich), Yale Divinity School (New Haven) in Connecticut.
Funding (note)
  • Yale Institute of Sacred Music with support from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Yale University, and the University of Notre Dame.
System Details (note)
  • DVD format; NTSC; widescreen.
ISBN
  • 9780974945798
  • 097494579X
OCLC
  • ocn698093814
  • 698093814
  • SCSB-9445821
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