The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52175   Message #798603
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
07-Oct-02 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Hymns vs. 'Praise Music'
Subject: RE: Hymns vs. 'Praise Music'
Banjo and organ duo... that'd be like a cricket singing underneath Niagara Falls. I used to go to a Lutheran Church that ended up installing a church that was a little too large for Yankee stadium. When the organist played, every one's hair blew forward ... it was at the back of the church. After a few Sundays trying to sing, when I couldn't even hear myself, I gave up. It used to irritate me that all the music that was played in the church was by DEC... Dead European Composers. I can just about abide strummed nylon string guitars and the new songs at folk services, but when songs are in keys that can only be sung if you're a tenor, and the organ makes you feel like you're in a wind tunnel, I give up. (I did play banjo and lead old hymns in that same church, by the way. But only when the choir and the organist were on vacation..

Jerry