Here are two images that reflect the contrasts in music sung at Riverside Church in New York City, and, even the contrasts that exist in today's musical performance around the world. On the left, a 19 April 1998 drawing reflects a Gospel singer singing "I go to the Rock", a piece that has been shaped by a lot of different musical traditions from all kinds of singing, pop, rock, classical, religious, and other. Moreover, she is using a microphone, one 20th Century's technology's ubiquitous injections into musical performance, to transform the volume and the nature of her singing. On the right, a drawing done a few months later,13 September 1998, in the same church, for a similar service, depicts another soprano singing contemporary composer Richard Hundley's "Will there ever really be a morning?" (see Richard Hundley below), singing without mike, in a completely different genre. That carefully composed song is also the product of many traditions, but their contribution is primarily funnelled through the composer.

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