John Dalmas wrote: >Kevin Sutton wrote: > >>No music, be it new age, rock and roll or even (and I shudder when I say >>this because I find it so distasteful) contemporary Christian music is >>from Hell. > >I shudder to think Kevin may feel this way about the music of John Rutter >and James MacMillan, to name two contemporary composers whose work I find >interesting. Perhaps Kevin has a certain narrow type of music in mind and >will disabuse us of his gross generalization. Actually, although I find much of John Rutter's music attractive and useful, much of it is also trite and formulaic, something akin to "Andrew Lloyd Webber for Jesus." I will grant, however, that the man has immense talent and ability and has written some very fine music for the church. I do have a certain type of music in mind, John, and anyone who is even vaguely familiar with what is going on in many American churches today will know exactly what I am talking about and might have the sense to know that I was not generalizing about legitimate composers such as MacMillan and Rutter. I was referring to the pop garbage, devoid of depth and even a good tune, turned out by the likes of Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace et. cet. ad nauseum. The kind of middle of the road love ballads to Jesus that in the seventies were recorded with secular words to great effect by many an FM radio star. In the music "biz" CCM as it is called is a specific genre for marketing purposes. Is that clear enough for you to be suitably disabused? Sheesh. Kevin