ABSTRACT
Ritchie Marphell takes over her father’s church organist duties when his vision fails. Only 16 years old, she has trouble maintaining order during rehearsals when cantankerous male choir members challenge her ability to direct them. Ritchie’s older sister Ruth, also a musician, chooses not to cultivate her contralto voice, because a singing career would be selfish when she is needed to run the farm during her father’s progressive blindness.
