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I’d love to play organ with a choir group. But I am not religious, so it feels wrong.
by j_bum 8mo ago
I’d love to play organ with a choir group. But I am not religious, so it feels wrong.
- RupertSalt 8mo agoI understand completely — doctrinal disagreement keeps me out of men’s choirs, musical theatre, and men‘s gyms, too!
- colanderman 8mo agoYou may find a good fit at a UU church.
- projektfu 8mo agoMy french horn teacher was a new-age "recovering Catholic"[1] and a paid singer for a couple Protestant churches. A job is a job. Personally, I am an atheist but I find a lot of devotional music to be well written and fun to sing, and I enjoy singing it in choir, even if I don't literally believe the words I'm singing. In any event, you can play organ with a community choir, especially if you can also play piano. We pay our accompanists. 1. i.e. no longer Christian
- cafard 8mo agoAn acquaintance made some money as cantor to a synagogue around here. He was not Jewish, but I gather that the combination of singing and getting paid felt just fine.
- azalemeth 8mo agoMany organists are not religious but appreciate the creativity and beauty of the music, buildings, and the mad range of incredibly different instruments that are all collectively called organs. Heck, in England, I've often wondered how really religious some of the clergy are...