if you don't believe my above post on this, Don, please check the ISU website (as Volgadon seems to have done).

No need, mum's an enthusiast and the house is small, so I get exposed to figure skating whether I like it or not. As I have pointed out, the downside is that it gets bogged down in musical cliches.

Joseph and Paul - "Business is glorified theft" (Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath). Wav, Wav, Wav. It is so easy to isolate a snappy cath phrase, ignore the original context and try to fit square pegs into round holes.
Some business is glorified theft, other , just business. In any case, try living withouth it. Even the fools in the newly-formed Soviet Union realised that.

Volgadon - traditionally congregations in England generally sing just the tune; while the organist (nowadays) will generally play all four lines on the score (and, yes, Eliza, other instruments have been involved in this); and, occasionally, trained boy (and nowadays girl) sopranos sing some bits above it all - descant lines, I think they are called. RVW - collected folk TUNES and ADDED these extra lines/harmonies HIMSELF. (Having said all that, I think just the tune sung and/or played well sounds great - with BOTH our hymns and our folk songs.)

Occasionally? How about all of the time since hymns were introduced, until that tradition was deliberately replaced by one of organ playing.

Oh, and we do try and sing hymns a bit more sweet/Sunday best voice.

I don't. I try to sing sincerely, but it is the same voice I would sing anything else in.