[Magdalen] St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Chooses.

[Scott Knitter]

I'd say it's personal preference rather than
appropriate/inappropriate. There's a big wide world of sacred music
out there, and men and boys singing Renaissance works is part of it.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:27 AM, NYS&WRR Coal Co
<nyswrrcoalco at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Leslie wrote:
>
>>I´m not going to try to be polite here, Jim. Your idea about MnBs being
>> wasted on Renaissance music is a load of hogwash. The stuff was >intended to
>> be sung by M&B choirs. Anything for the public religious occasion
>> pre-Reformation - private household music is another matter
>
> Just because modernists substitute boys for castrati  doesn't mean it's
> appropriate in modern worship conducted in a language understood by the
> people.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA