Gospel At Colonus Streaming
July 5th, 2010 admin![]() |
Gospel At Colonus Streaming.
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Gospel At Colonus I have yet to explore the DVD, but I have been looking for it. For YEARS, it was only available for academic purposes. I have only an frail VHS tape off my TV. The program is based on the Greek play Oedipus at Colonus presented as a Unlit Revival operetta. One highlight is the appearance of an early Morgan Freeman as the speaker. Other actors include such greats as James Earl Jones, and the music is provided by such groups as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama. The program is superbly written and presented, and is a video and audio masterpiece.
This fresh performance of Oedipus at Colonus is truly one of the most grand adaptations of an frail work for the the unusual stage. Other reviewers have commented on the remark and the action of the performance; I can only second their enthusiasm. I was blessed to witness Gospel at Colonus live in 1996 when it was in Seattle. Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama are unbelievable live, and worthy of their recent energy powers this production.
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I must now, unfortunately, turn my review to the production values of this long awaited DVD. They are abysmal: bad video and inexcusably awful audio. I disagree with other reviewers who bid that this quality is ‘typical’ of recordings of the time. (by inequity, stare at the Tremendous Performances live recording of the The Flying Karamazov Brothers production of Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors” at the Vivian Beaumont theater about the same time. The two are in different worlds of recording quality.)
Running several off the shelf video processing tools would have substantially improved the video quality of this presentation. And while items like vision mixing, camera placement, etc. can’t be fixed in post production, the audio certainly could have been: the performance that was recorded live for broadcast was the same one that was recorded live for the excellently produced cast album, which has been available for years. Patching in the crystal distinct audio of the album as an alternate audio track on the DVD is the work of about 3 days in a post production studio. Clearly the producers of this DVD were more eager in ringing the cash register than in providing the best archival quality recording of production. I’m tempted to do the work myself and establish it up on fanedit.com because after listening to the album for years, listening to the DVD is almost painful.
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So 4 stars for finally getting off the pot and getting this seminal work published. But one star lost for not giving a damn about what the quality of the product that they published. I’ll be watching this production company closely from now on and be more prone to *RENT* their works before I commit to buying them.
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