Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Tom BeaudoinMay 04, 2009

I have tried to suggest that lots of music reviews are humid with theological atmospherics. Now comes this review in today's New York Times, by Ben Brantley, of a new production here in NYC starring Sherie Rene Scott at the Second Stage Theater. It is titled "Everyday Rapture."

Brantley reports on Scott's being "torn between two lovers" -- Jesus and Judy Garland... along with her memorable rendition of "You Made Me Love You" -- directed to the Son of Man.

Brantley's review of Scott's show gives a nice illustration of how "secular" musics get a figuring role in spiritual experience, insofar as a great many of us live in cultures in which secular tunes are training for the comprehension of many different kinds of divine and human loving.

"First it was Donald Duck and now it's Clark Gable you're crazy about!" "And mind you, no dreaming about them, either."

Tom Beaudoin
New York City

Cross-posted to Rock and Theology

Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more.

The latest from america

The 12 women whose feet were washed by Pope Francis included women from Italy, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, Peru, Venezuela and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"We, the members of the Society of Jesus, continue to be lifted up in prayer, in lament, in protest at the death and destruction that continue to reign in Gaza and other territories in Israel/Palestine, spilling over into the surrounding countries of the Middle East."
The Society of JesusMarch 28, 2024
A child wounded in an I.D.F. bombardment is brought to Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on March 25. (AP Photo/Ismael abu dayyah)
While some children have been evacuated from conflict, more than 1.1 million children in Gaza and 3.7 million in Haiti have been left behind to face the rampaging adult world around them.
Kevin ClarkeMarch 28, 2024
Easter will not be postponed this year. It will not wait until the war is over. It is precisely now, in our darkest hour, that resurrection finds us.
Stephanie SaldañaMarch 28, 2024