03.31.2009 10:20 am
Need help “Holding On”?
Special to the Post-Dispatch
My hipster brother in Chicago, who always has his inner radar tuned to music to knock your socks off, passed along this YouTube clip. “Good music will always find a way in the dirty soul,” he says.
This is Black Gospel at its finest by one of its finest, Dorothy Love Coates.
If this doesn’t get you up offa that thing, clapping your hands, and shouting “Amen!”, you better check your pulse.
Travis Scholl, 35, is managing editor of theological publications at Concordia Seminary. A graduate of Yale Divinity School (MDiv), he is an ordained Lutheran minister. Despite some time away, he and his wife are native St. Louisans, as is the child they are now raising. 
Then, KFUO is being sold, apparently because classical music is not profitable. I will keep my socks on.
I’m anxious about the situation with KFUO-FM as much as anybody. Because Bach blows my socks off too. This recession forces decisions that few of us would like to make.
If somebody forwards me a good YouTube clip of St. Matthew’s Passion, I’d post that too. I’d like to hope that the appreciation of great music isn’t an either/or.