Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Some hellish music.

Hard rock in hell: Monsignor makes 'The Divine Comedy' a musical

A Rome monsignor has composed an extravagant musical version of "The Divine Comedy," featuring symphonic music in heaven, Gregorian chant in purgatory and hard rock in hell.

That's not a value judgment on rock music -- it just seemed to fit the spirit of rebellion in Dante's description of the inferno, Msgr. Marco Frisina told Vatican Radio Jan. 4 ...

... Msgr. Frisina already has stirred up controversy by saying he will put rock, punk and heavy metal music in hell.

"I'm simply using the music and sounds of rock to communicate that sense of laceration, drama and deep rebellion that rock music can express so well," he said.

"I needed rock music for the sounds in the city of Dis (the lowest part of hell), for the most violent part of Dante's inferno. But this is not a judgment about rock," he said.

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Sounds very cool. However, I think orchestral music can do just a good job of sounding like hell as rock music. Either way, I think it would be a great time seeing the whole story played out with that huge variety of music.

[Found on AmericanPapist.]

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