Gender of choir members

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If your Protestant church has a choir, are the members:
all men
all ladies
both ladies and men
 
Both and more men than women. But I live in San Francisco.

My favorite choir has to be King’s College, Cambridge. The tradition of men and boys choirs in Anglicanism is strong. IMHO, the treble voice has to be the most beautiful of all voices.

Here is one Lenten hymn for you: ‘Drop, drop slow tears’ by Gibbons. Enjoy

youtube.com/watch?v=NuRYrnhSfFI&index=10&list=RD_5WR__tRxg8
 
ComplineSanFran said:
Both and more men than women. But I live in San Francisco.

My favorite choir has to be King’s College, Cambridge. The tradition of men and boys choirs in Anglicanism is strong. IMHO, the treble voice has to be the most beautiful of all voices.

Here is one Lenten hymn for you: ‘Drop, drop slow tears’ by Gibbons. Enjoy

youtube.com/watch?v=NuRYrnhSfFI&index=10&list=RD_5WR__tRxg8
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A few of my favorites they did are “The Angel Gabriel,” Allegri’s “Miserere Mei,” and Samuel Barber’s “Agnus Dei.”
 
Kurisu35712 said:
A few of my favorites they did are “The Angel Gabriel,” Allegri’s “Miserere Mei,” and Samuel Barber’s “Agnus Dei.”
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Yes! And of course ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ at the beginning of Lessons and Carols.

A caveat, however, for the OP: if you are looking at basic Protestant churches and their choirs, I would disqualify Anglicans. I’m of the school that says we aren’t Protestant. Via Media and all that.
 
CyrilSebastian said:
If your Protestant church has a choir, are the members:
all men
all ladies
both ladies and men
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Both ladies and men. Probably more women than men – about a ratio of 3 to 2, although that is mainly because more women were interested in joining it at our church. There is also an orchestra at the traditional service which I prefer attending.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
Yes! And of course ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ at the beginning of Lessons and Carols.

A caveat, however, for the OP: if you are looking at basic Protestant churches and their choirs, I would disqualify Anglicans. I’m of the school that says we aren’t Protestant. Via Media and all that.
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I hold to a slightly different view, in that same school. But I acknowledge that point.

Also acknowledge “Once in Royal David’s City”.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
Both and more men than women. But I live in San Francisco.

My favorite choir has to be King’s College, Cambridge. The tradition of men and boys choirs in Anglicanism is strong. IMHO, the treble voice has to be the most beautiful of all voices.

Here is one Lenten hymn for you: ‘Drop, drop slow tears’ by Gibbons. Enjoy

youtube.com/watch?v=NuRYrnhSfFI&index=10&list=RD_5WR__tRxg8
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Lovely!

When I was a boy in Melbourne in the 1960’s I sang as a treble in an all-male choir. We had all the vestments, including starched “ruffs”. This was Christ Church, South Yarra, and was traditional Anglican but not Anglo-Catholic.

My experience in that choir was a wonderful, wonderful introduction to good church music. It has also made if difficult for me to cope with poorly played music, and most contemporary “songs”. (Correction: “Poorly played music”. I greatly appreciate a choir or organist with modest skills doing their best - but sometimes they seem to be intent on banishing good music).

By 1998, the last time I visited, the choir had come to include girls and women, and the church had been redesigned to lose much of its traditional feel.
 
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