A Golden Crown to Wear, and other music links

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• A Golden Crown to Wear -- “What joy indeed to know...”
• Ballad Hunters Alan and John Lomax Preserved the Work of Little-Known Musicians -- “Prisons were particularly fruitful because many inmates had been behind bars since before the advent of commercial radio. Traditional music was all many of them knew...”
• How Can I Keep From Singing -- “My life flows on in endless song above earth’s lamentation.”
• List of Musical Instruments Mentioned in the Bible -- “Shofar is a non-musical signaling device made from the hollow horn of an animal and in some cases, specifically the horn of a ram.”
• Music industry expert says drive-in concerts, live streams are ‘Band-Aids on a gaping wound’ -- “...our business was one of the first businesses to shut down because we’re about public gatherings, and we’ll be one of the last businesses to reopen because audiences need to be safe.”
• Musician raising money to pay mom’s rent left speechless by stranger outside Target: ‘Excuse me?’ -- “The young man, named Kevin, was standing outside a Nashville Target store playing violin with a sign reading ‘Need to help my mom with rent, God bless,’ on Aug. 9 when he was approached by Kadey.”
• Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab hoping to declare singing safe -- “The aim is find out how the number and size of droplets and aerosol particles generated by singing and playing compare with those produced by speaking and other forms of vocalisation, such as coughing.”
• Thank You, Russell -- “This should go without saying, but Russell Easter...loved everything about music.”
• Why Does the Church Sing When It Is Assembled? Part One -- “Congregational singing is worship, that is, it is an offering presented to God.  One could and should call it a sacrifice of the lips of a church...”
• Why Does the Church Sing When It Is Assembled? Part Two -- “Worship is vertical.  That’s the direction -- up.  It goes to God.  It’s like incense from the altar of incense, going upward into the nostrils of God.”