{"id":77,"date":"2008-04-20T13:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/music-at-st-peters-77.htm"},"modified":"2008-04-20T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T19:31:29","slug":"music-at-st-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/music-at-st-peters-77.htm","title":{"rendered":"Music at St. Peter&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Rome last week, and decided to attend the 10:30 sung mass at St. Peter&#8217;s. I had hopes because Benedict is a musician.<\/p>\n<p>Several years I met an American musician who lived in Switzerland.\u00a0He had negotiated with he Calvinist Cathedral in Geneva to host a Catholic choir, the first Catholic choir to sing there sinceteh Reformation. He wanted the Sistine Choir, but a friend warned him that he should go to Rome to hear them first. They were disappointingly mediocre. John Paul II had no ear for music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A schola sang at\u00a0the\u00a0high mass. They may have been good, but I couldn&#8217;t tell, as they used an amplification system so tinny that it sounded like an old car radio.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly cardinal who said mass knew the music, but his voice was cracking with age.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, is there no place in the Catholic world that has consistently good music &#8211; not spectacular, but sung on key, with everyone stopping and starting at the same time. I have not come across one yet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-77\" data-postid=\"77\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-77 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Rome last week, and decided to attend the 10:30 sung mass at St. Peter&#8217;s. I had hopes because Benedict is a musician. Several years I met an American musician who lived in Switzerland.\u00a0He had negotiated with he Calvinist Cathedral in Geneva to host a Catholic choir, the first Catholic choir to sing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-vatican","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}