Q: Music is your passion. You directed for so many years the Regensburger choir, one of the most famous in the world. What criteria should liturgical music fulfill?
A: Liturgical music must lead towards prayer and meditation. It has to calm one, to enable one to concentrate on God, on the essential.
The basic attitude, adoration, is essential in the liturgy. It has to help in that. What does not help is obviously not suitable.
Q: What kind of music do you prefer?
A: For me, Gregorian chant is strongly associated with the early period of Christianity — unsentimental, unspectacular, simple, concentrating on interiority, but also classical, vocal polyphony and classical music like Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Interview with the Pope's Brother
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This is a wonderful interview. Excerpt:
