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Listen to more of our conversation with the conductor of the St. Olaf Choir<\/a>, who suggests that music \u201cwill somehow seep into the bodies of those performing and certainly those who are hearing, and if it makes them reflect and they think differently about themselves and the people with whom they live day in and day out and how they lead their lives, then I think we’ve done our job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conductor of the St. Olaf Choir suggests that music \u201cwill somehow seep into the bodies of those performing and certainly those who are hearing, and if it makes them reflect and they think differently about themselves and the people with whom they live day in and day out and how they lead their lives, then I think we’ve done our job.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":21491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[10229,6934,5815,978,6868,6081,600,10227],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-anton-armstrong","tag-christmas","tag-gospel-music","tag-holidays","tag-hymns","tag-lutheran","tag-music","tag-st-olaf-choir","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nNovember 30, 2012 ~ Dr. Anton Armstrong Extended 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