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SOUND UP
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Explore
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CHARLIE: It’s a Sunday in New Orleans and I have to be honest. I’ve always had the fantasy of going to a local church. It’s been kind of a hard few days, so I’m really craving that spiritual hit and I’ve just found this place, St. Matthews Baptist Church. [SOUND OF PREACHING AND CONGREGATION RESPONSE, CLAPPING AND SHOUTING]
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[ORGANIST PLAYS HYMNS, “Will You Be Ready When the Lord Comes Down…”
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CHARLIE: Larry.
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LARRY “LOVE” HAMILTON, St. Matthews Baptist Church: Larry “Love” Hamilton.
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CHARLIE: How has music kind of shaped your life?
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LARRY: Well, music has been, like – That’s the first thing I fell in love with. [LARRY SINGING AND PLAYING]
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LARRY: When I was a little kid, we always had jazz funerals every Sunday night. Any tragedy is really the same. It’s like losing your loved one – your mother, your father. Any time we have a loss of life, there’s nothing really can soothe that but the Spirit, your mind, what I’ll say is the Spirit of God. When I play music, especially the Gospel music, even when I was singing blues, it was always coming from my experience of life, from my heart, and from my mind deep in my Spirit and that Spirit – I give all praise to God.
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[GRAPHIC – AS MUSIC PLAYS OUT] Dedicated to all people who keep faith alive regardless of circumstance.
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END OF FILM

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In a small Baptist church in New Orleans, gospel music helps heal the pain of post Hurricane Katrina.
“This might be one of my all time favorite Explore experiences,” Charles Annenberg, founder Explore.org.

United States
United States
Location:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Date:
August 2006
Grants Awarded:
St. Matthews Baptist Church ($10,000)
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  1. Leonard J. Aube
    When I was in junior high school, a boyhood friend and fellow trumpet player and I were selected to take part in a live interview for the local school district’s community television program with legendary trumpeter, composer, arranger, and conductor Gerald Wilson. We talked melodies, syncopation, dedication and our love for music. We even belted out chromatic scales together. At the end of the session Mr. Wilson handed my buddy and I complimentary tickets to a scheduled performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Zubin Mehta. That was back in the days when the Phil played at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. My mother drove and because we had never been downtown before we arrived way, way early. After more than 35 years I don’t remember a lot about the performance that evening but I’ll never forget as a 12-year old kid being mesmerized by Wilson’s playing, the sound of the orchestra filling every cranny of the concert hall and my mind. It was magic.

    Leonard J. Aube MARCH 3, 2009

  2. Philip Hackett
    I love New Orleans. Have several poet friends living there, including Andrie Codrescu, Stan Rice (deceased) and Anne Rice, as well as my very good friend Simone DuVerne (deceased).

    Philip Hackett MARCH 11, 2009