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To: MineralMan
I attend once or twice a year, just for that and to hear Church Slavonic...a language even more obscure than Latin, now.

Kinda like going to the zoo or a museum eh?

89 posted on 04/25/2005 9:40:09 AM PDT by Protagoras (Christ is risen.)
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To: Protagoras

"Kinda like going to the zoo or a museum eh?
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No, not really. Some of the best music ever written was written for the Christian liturgy. I have been a professional musician in my life, and have played many such pieces. It's only natural that I would enjoy hearing them in the setting for which they were written.

I speak Russian, albeit haltingly now, so it is very interesting to hear Church Slavonic, a predecessor to the Russian language. It's kind of like listening to Latin, the predecessor of all the romance languages.



97 posted on 04/25/2005 9:47:16 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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