| Show church music irusle has lors long leon no nol bously a provoker of discord once in my alais hunting days I 1 suffered tile the ignominy of a scoop on a choir rumpus and I 1 thereupon foamed the habit or 0 lending an anxious ear to rumors of trouble in choh lofts forts the average ladder like te deum built up tor for the of tile the sopranos sn vocal prowess has always me as an unholy thins thing I 1 even een believe that the horrors of highly embellished offertories have lone duitch to tighten purse strings and deaden generous impulses abe pre presence senco behind the pulpit of a languid quartette praising goj god an n behalf of the borod bored sinners in the ho pews has always seemed to me the prot irot anest of anomalies nor hns hits long temptation temp lation of vested choirs in episcopal churches shaken my belief that choir music should be an affair of df the congregation meredith nicholson on in the atlantic |