WBTV To Air "Song Of Soul"
"Songs of the Soul," an
entertaining half-hour musi
cal documentary that explores
Negro spiritual and the con
tribution they hâve made to
American music, will be pre
sented Wednesday, December
13 at 8:30 on WBTV, Channel 3.
Guest artist is the noted
folk-singer Odetta. As she
entertains a group of young
children in a park, she tells us
how spirituals were born,
where they were sung, how
they were learned by people
who could neither read nor
write--the early slaves in
America.
. WBTV cameras filmed on
location in the Carolines and
Georgia, several church
choirs singing the earliest of
spirituals. Included is a uni
que sequence filmed at the
only praise house (an early
19th century plantation build
ing constructed for slaves to
fattier and sing) still standing
in America. Here the legend
ary spiritual singer, Janie
Hunter, and ber family, per
form, "That ΟΓ Time
ReBgion."
Folk-singer Odette
..Guest artist
Othersequences were (lim
ed at a" rural cburch on St.
Helena Island in South Caro
lina, a remote rural area of
eastern North Carolina, and at
the First African Baptist
Church in Savannah, Georgia,
which is also the oldest Negro
church in America.*" "
In Pageland, South Caro
lina, the camera crew visited
and filmed an All-Day Singing
and Dinner on the Grounds, an
almost extinct religious exper
ience.
Some of the spirituals per
formed include "Steal Away,"
"I Done Died Once" and two
spirituals rarely beard outside
of the areas where they were
born, songs called "When I'm
Through Working Down Here,
I Got Another Building" and
"My Good Lord, Show Me The
Way:"
Odetta performs the beauti
ful spiritual, "Sometimes I
feel Like a Motherless Child"
and a lesser-known Christmas
spiritual. She also sings, along
with the children as she teach
es them, "Go Children, Where
I Send Thee."
When Odetta was asked to
appear in the film, she said,
"Many Americans do not real
ize that this musk is the only
totally original art to come out
of this country, and anything I
can do to preserve the great
heritage left to us by the
slaves, oh, I want to do. This
music is rapidly disappearing,
and soon it will be gone unless
we keep it alive. I'm glad for
this chance to help keep it
alive."
"Songs of the Soul" was
produced by Looms McGlo
hon, who has spent many
years of study in the field of
American spirituals. He was
assisted m tjjis _jproject
through the expertisé of some"
of America ' s foremost author
ities, including Alan Lomax of
New York City, and Dr. Roy
Hicks of Tuskeegee Institute.
John Burchett directed the
show, which was over a year
in production. Cinematogra
phers John Steed and Eddie
Hollifield filmed the beautiful
and unique sequences on loca
tion.
Mercy Announces INew Visiting Hours
Mercy Hoepital has
announced an extension in the
hours for patient visiting and
for the first time is allowing
children under 12 to visit on a
regular basis.
Effective immediately, visi
tors may see patients on medi
cal and surgical units anytime
between 12 noon and 8:30 p.m.
The former visiting hours
were 2:30-4:30 p.m. and 7-8
p.m.
"In addition to making ^
it easier for friends and family
to visit patients in the hoepi
tal," explained hoepital Presi
dent Sister Mary Jerome, "we
are hoping the new policy will
lessen the concentration of
visitor parking at peak "ours
in the parking lot."
Children under 12, accom
panied by an adult, may visit
in the hoepital dailv between
3:30-4:30 p.m. "Over the
years, we have made number
ous exceptions to this policy,
With very positive results in
patient recovery," says Sister
Jerome, "so we decided to
make it our standard policy."
The new visiting policy has
been endorsed by the hospi
tal's Board of Directors and
the Medical Staff representing
even 400 physicians who prac
tice at Mercy.
New visiting hours in Media
tries are 2:30-8:30 p.m., allow
ing for an after-lunch "quiet
time."
Children under 12 may visit
all nursing units, although the
discretion parents and nursing
staff should be used when
family members are-Ίη the
Intensive, Coronary, and Pro
gressive Care units.
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