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To: ELS
Gosh, it's late and I'm tired (and I don't listen to German as well as I used to -- use it or lose it!)

But so far as I can decipher the voice over, it says that the Cardinal doesn't have as much personal time as he would like, but even though it seems a bit of a contradiction (given his line of work at the time, I suppose) the art of music is very important to him, even when the performance is not letter perfect (that's when he bobbles the sharped note and mutters to himself!) - art to the Cardinal has a "God-dimension" to it.

That's more of an educated-guess translation on the fly than anything else! We need somebody who has been listening to German on a more regular basis than I have!

It's the Bach C minor lute prelude, btw, BWV 999.

17 posted on 05/22/2008 8:26:57 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
Thank you.

use it or lose it!

I lost the grasp of Spanish that I used to have by not using it. When I learned it in high school, the U.S. hadn't been run over by Spanish speaking folk, yet.

18 posted on 05/23/2008 5:55:38 AM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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