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Show CHURCH MUSIC. Charles Galloway, organist of St. Peter Episcopal Epis-copal church, conductor of the Apollo club and teacher of the organ, threw a bombshell into the Missouri State Music Teachers' convention today with his paper on "Church Music." lie flayed unmercifully un-mercifully the usual quartet choir singing, which constitutes the backbone of church music, and the fashionable choir, with its high-priced singers, is unworthy of consideration, in his (pinion. "Some of the church music now in vogue is about as appropriate as a ball gown at a funeral." be says. "Church music should be absolutely pure. Quartet singing can not do justice to the majority of the master compositions. Congregational singing sing-ing is lamentably weak because of the- poor quality of the hymn books in use. A hymn book should be compiled with fewer hymns, comprising only'those that have been written by great religion leader--." |
