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A Celebration o f Life
Charles Durrow
"Mainstream Marketability" Of Gospel Music
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Charles aka “Chuck" Durrow passed away from cancer on
Sunday, April 5, 1998. He was 57. A celebration o f life and
rosery service will be held at the Willamette National Cemetery
on Monday April 13, 1998 at 1:00pm, African dress. He gave
the world two children, a son, Timm and a daughter Jennifer,
and two little grandsons, Grant and Jordan. He left his mother,
Rosemary' and his sister Loretta and his half brother Eugene.
His niece, Heidi, and nephews, Christopher, Michael and
Mark.
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Men o f Standard
W alt ‘B aby’ L ove’s Pow er ‘98
all star gospel m usic package —
currently trekking cross-country on
a five m onth, 40 city tour — is not
your typical g o sp e l’ production.
R ather, says co -p ro m o ter A1
W ash “ it’s a sign o f the ever-in-
creasing m aturity o f gospel m usic -
- its perform ers and its audiences.”
Award-winning, best-selling gos­
pel headliners on “Power '98”are Dottie
Peoples, Fred Hammond, Hezckiah
Walker, Men o f Standard, Marvin
Sapp, The W illiams Brothers, and gos­
pel comedian, Jonathan Slocum.
Love, a m ajor gospel booster
w ith a nationally syndicated radio
p ro g ra m , “ g o sp e l T ra x x ,” and
W ash, head o f the D allas-based
ALW Entertainment, haveconceived
“ Pow er '9 8 ” as a follow -up to last
y e a r’s sm ash gospel success, “T he
T our o f Life.” T his becam e the m ost
successful gospel tour ever: nearly
500,000 ticket buyers and visiting 90
U .S. cities.
“ But *Pow er '9 8 ' is designed as a
full scale m usic show , not ju st a co n ­
cert,” says Love.
“T here is a storyline, vignettes
and sketches, and com edy... as w ell
as the m usic.”
In fact, the production was so com ­
plex that Love and Wash insisted on an
extensive and intense rehearsal period
before “Power '98” kicked off in Janu­
ary.
“It was an intense period. We had to
set everything up and get everybody in
line with the script, which has been writ­
ten by Fred Hammond, with input from
Jonathan Slocum, and the entire concept
o f the presentation,” Wash adds: “When
we originally explained that we wanted
to do something di fièrent from the usual
concert package, all the artists became
very excited.”
The three-hour “ Power '98” travels
with its own sets and a special concert
stage and lighting unit (designed to cover
every type o f theatre, concert hall and
arena into which the production is al­
ready booked). Wash adds: “There no
reason why rock bands should be the
only ones to have this kind o f presenta­
tion,”
“ P ow er 98” includes -- a first for
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Service to be Held April 22
P o r tla n d ’s a n n u a l Y orn H a -
S h o a h s e r v ic e w ill be h e ld at
C o n g r e g a tio n S h a a r ie T o ra h on
W ednesday, A p ril 22, a t 7 pm .
R a b b i L a rry H a lp e rn , E x e c u tiv e
D ir e c to r o f th e A m e ric a n J e w is h
C o m m itte e O re g o n C h a p te r w ill
o f fic ia te .
T h e s p e c ia l g u e s t s p e a k e r fo r
th e s e rv ic e w ill b e Ja c o b B o a s,
a u th o r, s c h o la r a n d im m e d ia te
p a s t E x e c u tiv e D ir e c to r o f th e
O re g o n H o lo c a u st R e so u rc e C e n ­
te r. M u sic fo r th e s e rv ic e w ill be
p r o v id e d b y lo c a l c a n to r s an d
th e M JC C Y o u th C h o ir d ir e c te d
b y A m y S h a p iro . T h e s e rv ic e is
s p o n s o r e d by lo c a l s y n a g o g u e s ,
J e w is h o r g a n iz a ti o n s a n d th e
O re g o n H o lo c a u st R e so u rce C e n ­
te r.
J a c o b B o a s w a s b o r n in
W e s te rb o rk c o n c e n tra tio n c a m p .
H e w a s ra ise d in th e N e th e rla n d s .
M r. B o a s h as a P h .D . in m o d e rn
E u ro p e a n h is to ry . H e is th e a u ­
th o r o f W e A re W itn e s s e s : F iv e
D ia r ie s o f T e e n a g e r W h o D ie d
in th e H o lo c a u s t.
B a se d o n e x c e r p ts fro m th e
w a r tim e w ritin g s o f fiv e J e w is h
c h ild re n -th e so n o f a P o lish d a iry -
m a n , a y o u n g c o m m u n is t in th e
V iln a g h e tto , an d O rth o d o x Jew
in B ru sse ls, a H u n g a ria n g irl from
a w e a lth y fa m ily an d A n n e F ran k
in A m s te r d a m - W e A r e W i t ­
n e s s e s c h r o n ic le s th e d is in te g r a ­
tio n o f d a ily life as o rd in a ry fa m i­
lie s w e re p e r s e c u te d , th e n m u r­
d e r e d , u n d e r H itle r ’s “ F in a l S o ­
lu tio n .”
F o r in f o rm a tio n o n th e Y orn
H a -S h o a h s e rv ic e c a ll th e O r­
e g o n H o lo c a u s t R e s o u rc e C e n te r
at 3 5 9 -2 9 3 0 .
C o n g re g a tio n
S h a a r ie T o ra h is lo c a te d at 9 2 0
N W 2 5 th in P o rtla n d .
a gospel show — non-m usical ac­
tors.
E xplains Love: “ It’s really the
u p d atin g o fatrad itio n . In th e 1960s
when gospel broke through into the
m ainstream for a period o f tim e,
there w ere show s such as “ Black
N ativity’ that m arried a gospel nar­
rative to gospel music.
“ Pow er 98 does this in a very
m odem dress... O ne sketch involves
a TV talk show , a vignette that
co m es w ith e c h o e s o f O p ra h ,
Sinbad, M ontel, etc. w ithin its for­
mat. And w e are introducing com ­
edy with Jonathan Slocum , one o f
the funniest new faces on the com ­
edy scene and w ho w orks with in
the gospel dim ension.
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