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Behind the scenes at the EHSSQ dance factory:

Update: I guess I’m not surprised that this video sparked such a flame-war - as pretty much every mention of EHSSQ seems to. But I should say, I posted the clip for two main reasons that have nothing to do with trying to tweak the group (I think […]

I turned in my grades a few days ago, which means the summer is here for me. I know, I know … the hard life of a teacher. I won’t even try to explain how much I actually will be working, just on a much more self-directed schedule than during the academic year.
Instead, let’s talk […]

Until tonight, while I was listening to those “Midnight Cry” clips, I always thought the line in the second verse was:
I see prophecies fulfilled.
But no. In fact, it is, evidently:
I see prophecies fulfilling.
Huh?
First off, put your flame throwers away. I’m not advocating some purist’s hard line here. The song is perfectly comprehensible the way it […]

Kyle Boreing has 20 years worth of Gold City performing “Midnight Cry,” from 1987, 1997, and 2008 (which is Ivan Parker, Jonathan Wilburn, and the new guy with the unpronounceable name on lead, respectively). Check it out. My favorite:

Kyle offers this and the two other videos as “three generations” of a great song. And I […]

Since they’re both among the hippest things going in sg right now, I was curious to see if EHSSQ and Austins Bridge would show up at the Doves. As it turns out: no, on both counts. And that’s too bad, but for different reasons in each case.

EHSSQ was up for multiple Doves, […]

Today I attended the last of this year’s Metropolitan Opera HD Simulcasts. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s a new project the Met launched this year to try to revive opera’s declining fortunes and the Met’s sagging attendance by broadcasting select shows live in High-Def at a couple hundred movie theaters around the country […]

From the “too good not to post” file, quartet-man provides our requisite dose of Friday humor:
This is awful, but years ago when I was but a young lad, the music director and I sang a rousing version of Worthy The Lamb (if I do say so myself.) We took off the wind screens from the […]

In responding to my Harmony Honors post and the ensuing discussion, one of my favorite readers, CVH, includes this wonderful story and correlative conclusion.
I remember being at the CMA (Christian Booksellers Association) convention in 1976 when Benson hosted a concert one night and they trotted out all the top artists on their roster then. Bob […]

If Tuesday night’s Southern Gospel Music Guild’s revamped Harmony Honors were, as we were repeatedly told, a showcase and celebration of sg’s best, then it’d be difficult not to wake up this morning thinking southern gospel music is a creatively impoverished genre populated at most levels by overgrow amateurs.

I don’t believe this is […]

I’m traveling this morning and so am spending some quality time with my iPod. And you know what? Southern gospel singers need to articulate their consonants better. And if they can’t, won’t, or don’t know how, their producer needs to make them.
Just because it’s playing as I type this, I’ll use as an example the […]