In the North Carolina sharecropper's shanty where Glenn Settle grew up, his mother used to sing the old Negro spirituals to him. Between songs, she told him: "If white and colored folks just got to know each other better, everything would work out all right."
Using the old Southern spirituals as his tools, sturdy, mild-mannered Glenn T. Settle, now 48, has made a career out of his mother's advice. This week, his famed all-Negro choir of mixed voices, the "Wings Over Jordan" chorus, is headed for a 26-week battlefront tour—the first religious musical...
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