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“There is no place in the service of worship where vanity and bad taste can so intrude as in the singing…there is the bass or the alto who must call everybody’s attention to his astonishing range and therefore sings every hymn an octave lower. There is the solo voice that goes swaggering…and drowns out everything else to the glory of its own fine organ.”

I wonder what choirs Bonehoeffer had to tolerate
Nov 05, 2025 07:22PM
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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Luke I've talked with another pastor/friend/scholar about this, and his theory is that it's a result of his culture, his German-ness. For a long time, but especially at this time, German culture is more about unity over diversity, and this leads Bonhoeffer to such a focus on singing in unison


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