Loren's Music Room

How I wish that more would.

It seems many churches have given up the classical for the profane vulgarity of "praise choruses" … songs with little depth, and intended more to entertain than to inspire and reinforce sound doctrine.

Paid choir directors, organists and instrumentalists seem to be a thing of the past as well. Too many teenagers with an electric guitar stepping-up to make noise and take away the livelihood of a degreed professional musician.

Most of the churches I know of no longer even have hymnbooks … just big old projection screens to display pretty pictures and words.

The churches that appreciate great music are still out there. It can range anywhere from hymns on an organ to special concerts that they feature large works with full orchestras. This is especially seen during Oratorio season (Christmas) with Handel’s Messiah or Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

The churches that tend to feature the most classical genre music are in my experience Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Catholic – ranked from higher to lower.