Kevin Sutton wrote:

>... when was the last time you heard the St. Olaf choir.  I heard them
>earlier this year in Chicago sing a gospel tune by Kieth Hampton that had
>me in the aisles.  Dr. Anton Armstrong, the current chormeister of St.
>Olaf is African American, and those Minnesota Lutherans can sing the
>bejezuz out of Black music.

They must have improved greatly under his leadership.  I heard them try
to sing something of that tradition his first year and the result was
underwealming at best.  They were much better when I heard them a few years
ago on their Christmas special, but it still seemed alien to them.  Much
improved, respectable, but not "singing the bejezuz".  Somehow they seemed
too pretty and respectful...

Ken McGuire
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