Since then, the Cathedral has been host to art shows, peace demonstrations, dance programs, secular concerts, and ethnic cultural festivals.
Some entertainments, such as at large festivals (whether religious or secular), concerts, clubs, parties and celebrations, involve big crowds.
The church hosts secular and spiritual concerts and, on Saturday afternoons, it runs a small thrift shop — though it's unlikely you'll find any lederhosen.
An active place of worship, with hundreds of congregation members and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, it is used for religious services, secular civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures.
Few people go anywhere near them – unless there is some kind of secular event like a concert or evening class going on.
And though the Southern Berkshires town has its share of secular temptations, from summer concerts to skiing in the winter, "we pretty much always have the 10 people we need," Rabbi Sharzer said.
Maybe that's why this concert was strictly secular.
But only the most famous or frugal of the big secular bands get by on concert fees and prize money, and most have had to look for funding beyond their local town.
And churches up and down the country offer, as any working musician will testify, a fantastic programme of recitals and concerts of both secular and religious pieces, often for free or for a low ticket price.
Obviously it is not a liturgical concert piece with added secular elements, like Britten's "War Requiem".
