[Magdalen] Music memories

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Was St. James the church next to the big Jacobsons?  I knew you were in 
MI/Detroit 'area'... but where did you live Grace?

I lived down a rather hidden road just before 16mile/Big Beaver, on the SE 
corner of Woodward and 16.

Lynn

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:24 AM
To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Music memories

> It always takes me surprise when a piece of music triggers an unexpected 
> memory. I was just listening to "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on NPR and 
> remembered the first I ever sang it. I was absolutely there again.
>
> I was 11 or 12, and our junior high choir of 7th and 8th graders--a very 
> large group--sang it for what I remember as the ordination of a deacon. I 
> thought it was the most beautiful piece of music I'd ever heard. The funny 
> thing is that I don't remember anything else about the service, even the 
> bishop, though he would confirm me a year or so later. And in those days 
> there might not even have been Eucharist. I couldn't have received anyway.
> For you cradle folks I'll note that our organist/choir director was Kent 
> MacDonald, who I believe was president of the AGO at one point. The church 
> was St. James in Birmingham, MI; rector was Harold Towne; (MISTER Towne, 
> of course!); and I think the ordinand was Fletcher Plant.  He was an older 
> man, so I think he was probably a vocational deacon.