"The Top Ten Things That Clergy Do That Drive Musicians Crazy"
- alter the order of service midway with no warning
- parachute extras into the service with no warning
- announce a hymn just when the choir's about to sing their Anthem because "they forgot".
- don't arrive in time to organise themselves before worship so they have to keep asking what's happening next
- insist on omitting verses from every hymn in the interests of brevity (usually because the sermon's overrun)
- announce to the choir before the service that there won't be space for the Anthem today because of one reason or another (unannounced visitor needs to speak / need to shorten the service / the Notices will be longer than usual etc etc)
- announce the hymn number, stop, and then read the first line(s) of the hymn just as the organist begins play-over
- shout announcements over the top of organist's playing
- change the practised hymns at the last minute because "the Baptism family want these as they're their favourites"
- won't communicate and take musicians into their confidences at the planning stage
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