Name: Amazing Grace
Start: 2022-06-11T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-06-11T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Auburn Avenue Research Library

Amazing Grace

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An in-person film screening that traces the behind-the-scenes recording of Aretha Franklin’s best-selling album.

Auburn Avenue Research Library

<p>Recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California, <em>Amazing Grace </em>is the live recording of Ms. Franklin’s album of the same name. Using film footage shot by Sydney Pollack and produced by Alan Elliot and Spike Lee, the 2018 documentary features gospel great James Cleveland. Ms. Franklin is accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir under the direction of Alexander Hamilton. Aretha’s father, Reverend C. L. Franklin, also appears in the film. <a href="https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/amazing-grace/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read more here</a>. </p>

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