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  • Musical Creativity Nourished by Christian Roots of Europe

    10/21/2005 6:31:01 AM PDT · by ELS · 23 replies · 434+ views
    VIS (via e-mail; not posted yet to Web site) ^ | October 21, 2005 | Vatican Information Service
    VATICAN CITY, OCT 21, 2005 (VIS) - Following a concert given in his honor, which was held yesterday evening in the Vatican, Benedict XVI thanked the conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and members of the choir of Ratisbone Cathedral and of the Athestis Chorus. The Holy Father said he felt proud that for thirty years the choir of Ratisbone Cathedral "was led with passion by my brother Georg," adding that "now, under Roland Buchner, it is still in excellent hands." With reference to the music he had heard and to its composers - from Palestrina to Richard Wagner, from...