Paul Potts, Susan Boyle and now Jackie Evancho. This clip from America’s Got Talent features a ten year old opera singer that has to be seen and heard to be believed. Even as you’re watching it you’d be tempted to think it must be lip-synced, save for the sound of the breaths that she has …
With a tip of the hat to Stephen McDonald for the reference here’s some material quoted from Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns, a new book by T. David Gordon (whose last book was entitled ‘Why Johnny Can’t Preach). …I will suggest that traditional and contemporary, in the present discussion, have nothing to do with dates, …
Isaac has a rant about church songs that have music scores that go longer than two pages. It’s quite amusing, not offensive, but does make a worthwhile point. (Sovereign Grace Music, I’m looking in your direction.) This comes back to the issue of church musicians being in charge of church music. (Gross generalisation alert) Musicians …
Last week I published links to two items, one by Michael Bird, (less serious) and the other (more serious) by David Robertson on the merit of the Free Church of Scotland changing its long standing custom of only singing material (mostly Psalms) that comes from the Bible. R. Scott Clark has a post (and lengthy …
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