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THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 10, 2018

You Can’t Bury 

Canterbury

T

he recording starts 
with Bach’s “Toccata 
and Fugue in D Minor” 
on the organ — you’d 
know it if you heard 
it — with a minor 

modulation of pitch, a quiver. Then 
a voice rings out above the organ’s 
echo.

“Good evening.”
*organ intro repeats*
“This is Dan Burke of Canterbury 

House”

*organ once again*
“… bringing you some of the 

sounds of the good news.”

*large applause*
Some of them are weird sounds, 

some of them are sweet sounds 
and some of them are perplexing 
sounds.

Burke’s deep, rich voice is imme-

diately cut off by the first verse 
of Carl Anderson’s “Superstar” 
from the “Jesus Christ Superstar” 
soundtrack. If this recording of 
Reverend Burke’s radio show from 
1971 doesn’t convey Canterbury 
House’s blend of musical innova-
tion and spirituality, I don’t real-
ly know what could.

See CANTERBURY, Page 5B

BY MATT HARMON, 
DAILY NEWS EDITOR

COURTESY OF BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY

