The Lyric Wore Lycra Quotes

“The congregation would just follow along in their prayerbooks like the good Episcopalians they were: standing, sitting, kneeling, bowing, a genuflect here, an obeisance there. Sing the hymns lustily and with good courage, as Charles Wesley advised.”
― Mark Schweizer, The Lyric Wore Lycra

“Missa Brevis. As far as Renaissance vocal music goes, Mr. Palestrina's compositions for the church are the pinnacle.”
― Mark Schweizer, The Lyric Wore Lycra

“I loved Fauré's Requiem as a callow youth, but as I "matured" in my musical tastes, I dismissed it for many years, choosing instead the settings of Mozart, Verdi, and Duruflé, of Brahms and Britten: even Penderecki and Ligeti. All wonderful, of course, but now, it seemed, I had come full circle. Now it was my favorite.”
― Mark Schweizer, The Lyric Wore Lycra