Phillip Brunelle is widely considered as the best choral director in the world .
The King’s group leaders from both Oxford and Cambridge have told me they are in awe of him .
Like most true geniuses he is a tad world of his own type .I believe he only will record with the MSP PBS , only place I have ever seen him . Could be a financial thing . The Plymouth is a church in Plymouth MN , west burb of Mpls . Was the Church choir originally but now Singers come from hundreds
just to sing with him , no cash involved . But most are just in MSP metro.
In this day and time the little apple is ground zero for the Lutheran Church , not just in the USA but in the world . The Swedes and Norwegians
who where first white settlers her brought their Religion with them and kept it . Anglican Church , my church, also has good choirs as do the Catholics .
And as St,. Áugustine said , and his monk Luther echoed , a prayer sung once is a prayer said twice ..
Couple years ago I stood with the King’s Oxford leader thanking him for a great performance and a boy treble , perhaps 9 years old inched up to me
and said , "We like it here better than Toronto because you really believe ".Out of the mouths of babes ! Been to Church of all types over the US , east,west , north and south ,
and people in the upper -mid-west are not what others are , Christian for
an hour on Sunday .
General observation of course , all black church ladies excluded .
P.S . google’" Classical Minnesota " might take you to MSP PBS which has thousands of their film concerts open to steaming by public . If not , let me know and I’ll call them up .My sustainer # is 651-229-1300, they should know and
they talk "Minnesota Nice" .
