Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

There Is No Place In The Service Of Worship Where Vanity And Bad Taste Can So Intrude As In The Singing. There Is, First, The Improvised Second Part Which One Hears Almost Everywhere. It Attempts To Give The Necessary Background, The Missing Fullness To The Soaring Unison Tone, And Thus Kills Both The Words And The Tone. There Is The Bass Or The Alto Who Must Call Everybody's Attention To His Astonishing Range And Therefore Sings Every Hymn An Octave Lower. There Is The Solo Voice That Goes Swaggering, Swelling, Blaring And Tremulant From A Full Chest And Drowns Out Everything Else To The Glory Of Its Own Fine Organ. There Are The Less Dangerous Foes Of Congregational Singing, The 'unmusical' Who Cannot Sing, Of Whom There Are Far Fewer Than We Are Led To Believe, And Finally, There Are Often Those Also Who Because Of Some Mood Will Not Join In The Singing And Thus Disturb The Fellowship.

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