Madam, - Prof Gerard Gillen's article on church music (Rite and Reason, December 1st) was like soothing liniment for a sore heart! I am sure there are many choir members around the country who must have felt a sense of gratitude. We have become a threatened species, and maintaining a well-rehearsed, mature, four-part choir is verging on an act of subversion in today's all singing, all dancing churches.
Thank you, Prof Gillen, for giving us beleaguered choirs a "kiss of life"! - Yours, etc.,
JUNE RAFFERTY, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.