I started directing a choir when I was 22 years old. I was fresh out of music school and had started a grad degree at Catholic University. I’m surprised I made it past my first few months. Most of the choir was over sixty. Some were Vatican II revolutionaries, the baby-out-with-the-bathwater folks who pronounced “amen” as “aye-men.” The same people who lived through drastic change during the 60’s were determined that once they crossed over the vernacular and folk music threshold, would never look back
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