Thursday, May 1, 2008

Banned in Southwark


The dean of Southwark Cathedral has banned "Jerusalem," the quintessential English anthem (music by Hubert Parry, words by William Blake), from services because, he says, "it is not in the glory of God."

"At least we now know which part of Church of England the Dean doesn't understand," Julian Lloyd Webber writes in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/01/bmjulian101.xml