[Alamo-Girl]

What a sad reception for such a beautiful hymn. The same hymn with a God-loving, patriotic audience would have them standing in joy.

[betty boop]

The objection, dearest sister in Christ, was that I had sung a "religious song" at a "secular event."

Oh, how things have changed since I was in High School! In various years, I sang both the Schubert and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria, and the sublime Gesu Bambino, by Pietro Alessandro Yon — at the annual Christmas Assembly. [This in a Massachusetts public high school. Those days are gone forever.]

I was in very good voice then. Now, I don't sing at all, except when I'm doing the dishes!