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Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:56:28 -0500
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>Helen Cripe wrote:
>
>Yes, coming from fly-over Indiana I've heard lots about harp-is-chords.
>
>Several of my favorites are from a former church secretary who had a lot
>of trouble with putting anything musical in the Sunday bulletins
>correctly. One Sunday the bulletin announced that the choir would sing
>"The Lord My Faithful Shepherd Is Back." During her tenure we also sang
>a lot of "cannons". You don't even want to know what she did with
>"fugue".

At Indiana back in the '70s, all the School of Music programs were 
typeset by guys whose musical knowledge was probably zip (although 
they did have a graduate assistantship for a musicology student who 
checked the programs for accuracy).  A good one slipped through the 
proofreading cracks when the program listed our player of the tenor 
sackbutt, but the "a" was replaced by a "u."  We thought it was 
hilarious.  The Dean did not!

John


-- 
John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
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