Diverse music.

Dear editor,

Re: Churches tend to lean toward traditional music genres (April letters). Of course traditional music is not to everyone's taste. In my teenage years I enjoyed a brief period of exposure to pop-influenced Christian music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. Since then, as opportunity offered, I have enjoyed the traditional choral music for which the Anglican church is so well known; This was the first year, to my knowledge, that our carol service was not well attended--the direct result of a severe winter storm that kept all but the most committed parishioners at home. I know I am not alone in my appreciation for traditional choral music.

I suggest that God's music is not limited to any one genre of human musical endeavour and we should never seek to silence any music to His praise and honour. We are a diverse people and should embrace our diversity. Not all congregations should seek to please all tastes, nor should one choice be forced upon all congregations. Modern churches: rock on! Traditional churches: sing out the Stanford, the palestrina, the Stainer, the Wesley!

Eva Webster

Peterborough, Ont.