What became of schubert, more recently aka jim5559?

If it was beauty schubert was looking for in music, I maintain that there are plenty of "Rock" songs that contain more beauty than do a number of Classical compositions. But as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The problem with schubert was (?) he had (?) no sense of humour. Ya know, being filled with joy is a very Christian thing (and self-righteousness a very un-Christian one). That joy can be accessed through ANY kind of music.

Yes indeed @roxy54. The early Bluesmen and Rock ’n’ Rollers were denounced for singing the "Devil’s Music", and the 1950’s and 60’s Soul singers were denounced from the pulpit in the same Baptist churches whose choirs they had once sang in. Those included Sam Cooke, the first of the choir boys (no irony intended ;-) to go secular. Aretha and others followed his lead.

Jerry Lee Lewis was very conflicted about singing Rock ’n’ Roll (there’s a great debate between he and Sun Record’s founder Sam Phillips about that subject, captured on tape), and Little Richard returned to his Baptist platform for a while. Elvis felt no guilt, but his favorite musical situation was to sing Gospel music in the Jungle Room at Graceland, accompanied by The Jordanaires.

Johnny Cash recorded a few albums of spiritually-based songs, and Dylan of course did his three Christian albums (which I really like). More recently we have Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives, who did an album entitled Saturday Night/Sunday Morning ;-) . And of course the Angel From Montgomery (as her close friend and collaborator John Prine may have called her)---Iris Dement. Iris was raised Pentecostal (you know---the "snake handlers"), but sings like the Devil, so to speak. And Buddy & Julie Miller, both coming out of the Contemporary Christian field, as did T Bone Burnett and his ex-wife Sam Phillips. All some of my favorite musical artists. Schubert would never understand why.

I shared with schubert a love of J.S. Bach, but his penchant for insisting music be made solely in glory to God was a gulf too wide to bridge. That’s akin to saying sex must be engaged in solely to procreate. Lighten up, dude ;-) .