Back in the middle ‘70’s, I seem to recall, I went to one of those community glee-club performances at the local high school. It didn’t blow me away at the time but it was not unpleasant.

One of the hallmarks of that kind of concert is how, well, inauthentic some of the music can sound, as a piece is ripped from its cultural origin and transplanted into another culture.

And music is all about culture.

But that was the ‘70’s, when the wilder music of the 60’s was tamed a bit by just the right orchestration:

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