[Desdemona]

And on that note I have some stuff to do. I will be back.

[Catholicguy]

Des, a few years back I went to Mass at St. Louis Cathedral in N'Awlins. Their organist was a woman who was 418 years old. By any chance, do you know if she is still alive and active?

[xzins]

Also Choirs.

We have an outstanding choir director (Christian) in one of our local high schools.

He says that the art of choir directing is disappearing. There is little interest in music departments and fewer students learning the necessary skills or interested in putting out the work to create the product.

Background tapes supporting vocalists and small groups fill the place of the choir in many churches.

Too bad; it'd be a shame to lose such a beautiful means of offering praise to God.

[sinkspur]

Looking for the next Virgil Fox?

[ahadams2]

where have they all gone? why we hired most of the good ones away from y'all - where do you think we got ours? :-)

[Conservative til I die]

We had a music teacher at my grammar school who doubled as an organist at Mass. He died under rather sudden and mysterious circumstances, believed by most of us to be AIDS.