Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
CHURCH ORGANIST SUSPENDED AFTER PLAYING STAYIN ALIVE AT EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE
http://christianfunnypictures.com/2016/11/church-organist-suspended-playing-stayin-alive-easter-sunday-service.htmlFrom the Head Office of the Royal College of Organists, Bishop George Piper, said this at a press conference held on Tuesday:
For the last 16 years organist Mr Ross Stanhope has provided spiritually uplifting music to worshippers at St Albans Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois. It is therefore with great sadness that I inform you that he has been suspended pending further investigation and advice. There is now clear evidence that tends to prove he has strayed from musical orthodoxy by playing a short organ flourish of Stayin Alive in the middle of one of the Easter hymns at a recent service
9 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
CHURCH ORGANIST SUSPENDED AFTER PLAYING STAYIN ALIVE AT EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE (Original Post)
safeinOhio
Apr 2018
OP
Phew, thank GOD the important shit is being addressed in this day and age, eh!
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#1
Eliot Rosewater
(32,539 posts)1. Phew, thank GOD the important shit is being addressed in this day and age, eh!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(122,320 posts)4. It's a joke.
Sanity Claws
(22,083 posts)2. That is funny
Sacrilegious but funny.
Girard442
(6,483 posts)3. In these troubled times, "Stayin' Alive" is an expression of hope.
Something we all want to do as long as possible.
unblock
(54,369 posts)5. on a related note, if you ever have to give cpr, remember "stayin' alive"
it has a nearly perfect beat for the rate at which you're supposed to do chest compressions.
Docreed2003
(18,004 posts)6. Next you're gonna tell me Jesus can't dance
Ernesto
(5,077 posts)7. After all, it was April FOOL'S day!....... n-t
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,477 posts)8. I do know of one organist who was playing Pachelbel's Canon
As a processional, and her mind started wandering, until she realized that she was playing Blues Traveler's "Hook", which has a very similar chord structure.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)9. I would have excommunicated the organist.
I hate that song.