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I refer to the John Rutter piece of that name. The chorus I sing with is performing it at our holiday concert.
Here’s a clip of the St. Olaf Chapel Choir performing the piece.
The harmonies are so exquisitely voiced and the modulations built so tightly into the vocals that I’d be curious to hear […]

From the left: Ralph Stanley endorses Barack Obama. I’m not kidding. One more way bluegrass is not like southern gospel (h/t, M). And, uhm, can we trade Rick Hendrix for Ralph, please? Can someone make that happen? 
From the right: Gerald Wolfe’s recent e-letter urging people to remember that Barack Obama supports abortion seems to […]

And I promise this isn’t about Sarah Palin. Gosh darn it.
Daniel Mount has a surveyMonkey thing going that attempts to figure out if music was better in the good ole days. Good luck with that, I say. But it’s fun seeing how many songs from less than recent memory that you remember. Check it out.  […]

Of the Gaither Vocal Band, I mean. I confess, that was one thought that crossed my mind when I saw Guy Penrod is taking a “sabbatical” from the GVB. I don’t know anything to make me think there’s more to this than meets the eye. Rather, it just seems like a particularly visible evidence of […]

Jonathan Sawrie does some historical accounting to compare the earnings and expenses of professional gospel acts in the 50s and their counterparts today (h/t, again, NG). And because I find it singularly unilluminating to hear about the time when gas was [insert pennies-on-the-dollar-sum], as if only prices have gone up and everything else is the […]

Alt title: A bunch of stuff that longtime avfl reader NG sent me and I thought was worth passing along, plus this first thing that reader DA sent to me and then later I saw on Musicscribe too:
That didn’t last long: as many probably saw already, the Smoky Mountain Showcase where the Fake Florida […]

Responding to my (now seemingly long ago) NQC comments about the Mark Lowry/LordSong set, nonSGfan wrote:

I think the Mark Lowry delusion was so off base….reading WAY too deep into a shallow man. Mark Lowry doesn’t believe the bible is the final authority, he makes jokes that make eevvveerrybbbooooddy laugh about how other people believe. […]

At long last some, some final thoughts I’ve been kicking around since NQC. First, some odds and ends.
Dottie Rambo: To answer many email queries and comments I’ve received on this, there was no formal memorial or remembrance of Dottie Rambo on the weekend evening mainstage, assuming anyone remembers what happened almost a month ago […]

When we last left our regularly scheduled blogging, the discussion was partly centered on suboptimal sound at live concert venues. Which made this note from avfl reader Jrod especially timely. Jrod was in NYC during NQC listening to the Queen of Soul Herself and he sent back this report:

Aretha is beyond everything that you […]