So come on out and see it if you get the chance. Regardless, I'd love to see some friendly yet educated faces in the crowd and critical feedback is always welcome. But the question was asked by an actual person. I'm not just writing about the subculture of church choirs, a subculture, incidentally, that I think resembles our own subculture of academe in many ways. What I am really talking about is ego and jealousy.
Some people see the successes of others as an affront.
That choir director who resented the posters in his own church was also perturbed by the success of another artist. Of course it was an exaggeration to say Art is everywhere, although if you move in churchy circles, your idea of ubiquity might be a lot different than for those of you who only enter churches for marriages and funerals, if ever. I wonder, however, how many of the readers of this newsletter even saw it. An event that is big news in our subculture might be unheard in the larger world. I have to confess that I am mightily confused about what is and what is not important, what is or is not worthy of a fuss.