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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