A Deaf Composer? A Deaf Conductor?
When I’m sick with a cold, my hearing becomes clogged and I can’t hear properly—which is a choirmaster’s worst nightmare.
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When I’m sick with a cold, my hearing becomes clogged and I can’t hear properly—which is a choirmaster’s worst nightmare.

John Newton—who wrote “Amazing Grace”—was a slave trader, but ended up being caught and made a slave himself!
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Did Vatican II “restore” the hymns—as mandated by §93 of Sacrosanctum Concilium?
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“Once there were lost islands, but most of them have been found…”

It’s hard to believe, but Father Knauff’s “Christ the King Hymnal for Congregational Singing” (1954) omitted this hymn!
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