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<\/a><\/p>\nThere is a hilarious article in today\u2019s Daily Telegraph about how English organists have taken revenge on their ministers and others they found difficult to work with. In a survey taken by Christian Research, almost half the respondents mentioned that they had noticed organists slipping snippets of heavy metal classics, advertising jingles, and nursery rhymes into hymns and anthems. For example, there was an organist in Scotland who had fallen out with the elders in his church, but he got his revenge by playing a thinly disguised version of \u2018Send in the Clowns\u2019 when they processed into the church one Sunday. In another incident, a priest fired an organist who played \u2018Roll out the Barrel\u2019 at the funeral of someone who was known to love to drink. Yet another congregation heard Abba\u2019s Money. Money, Money one Sunday when the collection was being taken up. <\/p>\n
Of course, one way to avoid this whole problem is to go with Praise Music\u2026 oh wait, that already is rock n\u2019 roll and pop music \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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