New Pope

[dbrainiak914]

I hear the new pope is a pianist.  Anyone know anything about this?

[mikeyg]

No, I haven't heard of that.

However, I am happy to see that the Catholic Church would rather stick to its values than try to attact new members by electing a more "liberal" pope.

And I know alot of people are going to be like "Oh, he was an ex-Hitler Youth"  It's not like he had any voice in the matter.  He was 13ish when he entered, and it had been forced upon him.  He was never enthusiastic about it.

[Waldszenen]

I hear the new pope is a pianist.  Anyone know anything about this?

Joseph Ratzinger? He plays piano, but he was never actually a professional, if that's what you mean.

[Floristan]

I hear he plays a catholic selection of slide and rag favoring dorian and ionian modes.  Actually I hear he's a Hanon fanatic and plans to record the entire "Virtuoso Pianist" on the Vatican label.  He's an old-fashioned guy whose idea of hip is 1000 years old, and whose idea of an idea is a fossil he doesn't believe proves evolution.  On the good side, he's old.

[nicko124]

He "is said to be an accomplished pianist with a preference for Beethoven."

My source is BBC News - https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4445279.stm

[musik_man]

I think the Pope should release a CD.  Just cause I think it'd be cool.

Friend: "Whatcha listening to?"
Me: "The Pope"

[theodopolis]

I'm overjoyed at this aspect of Benedict.

This should lend favour to maintaining the musical traditions of the Church, and returning to the mainstream embrace of Plainchant at last.

[puma]

   John Paul II, who just passed away, released 4 cds, mostly of him praying and reciting the rosary. 

[Waldszenen]

You know

The best way to get young people to follow the Church again is to get a pontiff who plays electric guitar and sings rock.

[Daevren]

Didn't the new pope say rock music was a vessel of evil/the devil?

Or was that joke?

[mikeyg]

Didn't the new pope say rock music was a vessel of evil/the devil?

Or was that joke?

It may or may not have been, but it was true.

[Waldszenen]

Didn't the new pope say rock music was a vessel of evil/the devil?

Or was that joke?

I kind of agree with him... >_>

[musik_man]

I kind of agree with him... >_>

Why?  There's alot of high quality rock music.

[Waldszenen]

hehe yeah that's true

[Daevren]

Why?

[Waldszenen]

Why what?

[musik_man]

hehe yeah that's true

Is that sarcasm?  I can't tell whether it is or not. >.> (best to ask when not sure)

[theodopolis]

Why?  There's alot of high quality rock music.

I agree, but the rock music found in churches is not the good-quality stuff.

[BoliverAllmon]

I agree, but the rock music found in churches is not the good-quality stuff.

why is that? I have found tons of music that is very nice and is of the church persuasion.

[theodopolis]

I find that good-quality popular music must be original for me to enjoy it.
I have rarely heard the popular style of church music where I cannot name the original popsong which has been slavishly copied with new lyrics by St. John the Evangelist.

Also, contrary to the apparent belief of many new church music composers, congregations rarely deal with an alternating 5/4 and 7/8 meter particularly well.

That is not to say that popular music has no place in the church: just this last Sunday, I turned up to play for 10:30 am Mass and arrived in time for the end of the 9am service, which is the Children's Mass and the recessional was the old favourite "I'm gonna let it shine!" with a spectacularly good, jazz piano accompaniment. I couldn't help but join in the singing, and the congregation burst into spontaneous applause for the pianist's efforts and the conclusion.

It is the newly written music which I find to be mostly superficial, derivative and detrimental to congregational involvement in the music, which is what the entire post-Vatican II movement is centred around.

It's easier to turn a few heads with an appropriately unexpected modulation to the relative major than to recruit an insensitively overbearing drummer to make everyone flinch on the off-beat.

Thanks
Theodopolis

[Glyptodont]

Who gives a straw?  Really. 

I'm sorry, but this sort of topic suggests the poster is fishing for hits.

[mikeyg]

Who gives a straw?  Really. 

I'm sorry, but this sort of topic suggests the poster is fishing for hits.

No THIS: https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8350.0.html is fishing for hits

[dinosaurtales]

No THIS: https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8350.0.html is fishing for hits

NO S**T!