Benedict praises "glorious music" of Bach in festival message

Catholic News Agency ^ | July 28, 2020 | CNA

[Marchmain]

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has praised the “glorious music” of Johann Sebastian Bach in a message to a festival in Germany.

In a statement released July 27 by the organizers of the 2021 Bach Festival in Leipzig, Benedict XVI noted that the festival would include a cycle called “Bach’s Messiah,” chronicling the life of Jesus through the composer’s music.

“The particularity of this festival is that it has merged the works of Bach relating to the life and work of Jesus Christ of Nazareth into a whole, thus giving us a kind of ‘Messiah’ by Bach,” he wrote.

The Bach Festival will be held on June 12-15, 2021, with the theme of “Redemption.” The “Bach’s Messiah” cycle will consist of 11 concerts over four days in the churches of Leipzig, the city in eastern Germany where the Lutheran composer died in 1750. The cycle will include 33 Bach cantatas, the St. Matthew Passion, and the Christmas, Easter and Ascension Oratorios.

[Marchmain]

“The faith that produced this music and which Bach, as a musician, loyally served, is now extinguished and continues to have an effect only as a cultural force.” (!)

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

[Wilhelm Tell]

How long before the left bans this as subversive? From the article:

Benedict’s message said: “The faith that produced this music and which Bach, as a musician, loyally served, is now extinguished and continues to have an effect only as a cultural force.”

“As a devout Christian, one may regret this reduction, but it also has a positive element. For the fact remains that something is accepted as culture, that is the fruit of a devout encounter with Jesus and that bears this origin in it forever.”

[I want the USA back]

He’s irrelevant. Has he condemned the marxist violence in US cities? No. So he should shut up.

[Varda]

I think of him as a kind of Judas. He laid down the cross that was his to bear. He still has time to repent, I pray he does.

[Savage Beast]

June 12-15, 2021: That will be something to look forward to.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, the psychotic left will probably try to destroy all copies of Bach's music, and the so-called "journalists" of the MSM will cheer them on.

Pass the emesis basin!

[aspasia]

Nicht diesen, sondern Barrabam!

[frogjerk]

He laid down the cross that was his to bear.

It is very easy for you to judge at your keyboard.

[Varda]

I didn’t accept being Pope.

[Hieronymus]

You weren’t asked.

JP I, on the other hand, agreed to give it a month.

[Varda]

We’re all asked to pick up our crosses. Some are put to a more severe test than others.

[Hieronymus]

Given a choice between being dead and having to live through the past 8 years, I have a guess on what would have been the easier cross.

[Lee N. Field]

I may still have that LP, somewhere.

And Walter Carlos, long long before it was trendy, became Wendy Carlos. Just an aside.