[padre35]

"The Prince of Wales, Charles, has commissioned the Westminister Cathedral to stage a new musical work based on Qur’an — it sets the 99 names of Allah to music, to be intoned over an hour and a half with choir, full orchestra and Tibetan gongs." The (future) Titular head of the Church of England is doing that? I'm shocked..shocked I say.... Charles has already talked about divesting the title from the duties lists, IMO that would be a good thing as he has neither the stomach nor the cajones for it.

[fortunecookie]

"The Prince of Wales, Charles, has commissioned the Westminister Cathedral to stage a new musical work based on Qur’an — it sets the 99 names of Allah to music, to be intoned over an hour and a half with choir, full orchestra and Tibetan gongs." The (future) Titular head of the Church of England is doing that? I'm shocked..shocked I say.... Charles has already talked about divesting the title from the duties lists, IMO that would be a good thing as he has neither the stomach nor the cajones for it.

Shocked, yeah, that's it. Shocked.

But seriously, perhaps it's a misunderstanding on my part, but how is the Prince's idea of a musical with orchestra and Tibetan gongs going to pass muster? I thought that, at least for the most fundamentalist Muslims, musical instruments (also pets, drawing the human form) are strictly verboten, whether or not in worship. Only vocalization. And a nod to Tibetan gongs? Well, I'll be curious to see if the musical materializes and if it is protested.

[beachdweller]

Maybe I’m wrong, but I seem to remember something about Prince Charles considering conversion to Islam. Is that true at all? If so, it’s insane.