Link: Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show.
Up this week we have an extraordinary recording from 1971 of the High Spirits Choir of Holy Spirit School in Colombus, Ohio. Their director, Sister Carol Ann Krell, expertly manages to coax out some truly beautiful performances out of a group of approximately 160 children aged eight to fourteen years old. It’s not cutesy, pretentious, or mind numbingly-school-assembly boring. The children build up musically rich arrangements from simple guitar elements, sing in well rehearsed voices that blend wonderfully into full, multi-part harmonies, and display and enthusiasm and sincerity that just drips off of the vinyl.