My church choir's choir directory, Cathy, is also an elementary music teacher in the local public schools, and was just telling us at this evening's rehearsal about the concert that she put on with her schoolkids. If there's at least one song on the program for each religion practiced by the students in the school, she has leave to perform her Christmas carols in a public school.
The program included a Hanukkah song, Cathy's first Eid song (with strange quarter-tones on the musical scale, and lots of lyrics consultations with the area Muslim adults, who were even less inclined to force non-Muslims into Muslim worship than they were to join in worshipping outside their own), and Lots of Christmas carols & songs. (The Chipmunk Song, complete with soloists equipped with hula hoops and toy airplanes, was a hoot.)
I remember singing Christmas carols in my public school (including non-secular ones, at that), balanced with Hanukkah pieces, and thinking that that sort of a balanced thing wasn't possible any more.
And BTW, the 700 Club was conservatives out to undermine the fabric of America, and cut out huge patches of its cloth, so that all they saw were those just like themselves.
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Some things are returning to the balance I once knew
Date: 2009-12-18 04:29 am (UTC)The program included a Hanukkah song, Cathy's first Eid song (with strange quarter-tones on the musical scale, and lots of lyrics consultations with the area Muslim adults, who were even less inclined to force non-Muslims into Muslim worship than they were to join in worshipping outside their own), and Lots of Christmas carols & songs. (The Chipmunk Song, complete with soloists equipped with hula hoops and toy airplanes, was a hoot.)
I remember singing Christmas carols in my public school (including non-secular ones, at that), balanced with Hanukkah pieces, and thinking that that sort of a balanced thing wasn't possible any more.
And BTW, the 700 Club was conservatives out to undermine the fabric of America, and cut out huge patches of its cloth, so that all they saw were those just like themselves.