Church Music Considered


by Richard Greene

1.

The most popular piece of church music nowadays is “Error and Variations.”

2.

In the more democratic choirs, pitch is optional.

3.

This is the first choir that I have heard for which the fitting accompaniment is indeed the Hammond Organ.

4.

Percussion — like lumber falling from a truck.

5.

If one singer had found the pitch they would have had nine-part harmony.

6.

A choir director on Good Friday: “I haven't been this nervous since my wedding, and we all know how well that turned out.”

7.

This is just another nail in the cacophony.

8.

My noisy bass among a dozen sopranos — like parallel parking a bull-dozer.

9.

If prayer is the breath of a song, why so much karaoke?

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