Buildings and Hymns

During the 18th century and early 20th century there was a great wave of building churches. Great cathedrals, small parishes; many great legacies to people's faith and community's perceived identities. At this same time many great hymns were being written. And many of these hymns, like the buildings are what we still use today. We try to upgrade and maintain these buildings and we try to keep these hymns alive sometimes by adding new instrumentation that reflect our changing times. It seems to me that there is a connection between architecture and the level of composing of music. With great symphonies of the 18th century we had more great monuments, with more random refrains and emphasis on pop music our architecture becomes more disposable.