# It looks like the Pope may attend one of our concerts next year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294 "2007-12-17T03:57:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/1 "2007-12-17T03:57:12Z")
The choir’s schedule for 2008 includes a couple of performances of Beethoven’s \*Missa Solemnis \* in July. The Pope will be in Sydney for World Youth Day at the same time and apparently he’s keen to come along to one of the concerts. If he does, it will certainly add an extra frisson of excitement to the performance of a very difficult work. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/2 "2007-12-31T00:09:24Z")
And now there’s a suggestion that the Governor-General will put in an appearance too. It could be a big night. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/3 "2007-12-31T00:34:26Z")
I’m imagining the ending of _Sister Act_ now… Which one of you is Kathy Najimy? Okay, seriously…congratulations! I’ve heard the soundtrack to _Happy Feet_…you’re going to wow him. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/4 "2007-12-31T01:19:51Z")
Don’t forget the Horst Wessel song. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/5 "2007-12-31T03:00:59Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Okay, seriously…congratulations! I’ve heard the soundtrack to _Happy Feet_…you’re going to wow him. [/QUOTE] Well…the \*Missa Solemnis \* doesn’t scale the dizzy heights in quite the same way as the Happy Feet score, but we’ll give it our best shot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/6 "2007-12-31T03:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Well…the \*Missa Solemnis \* doesn’t scale the dizzy heights in quite the same way as the Happy Feet score, but we’ll give it our best shot. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Pfft. An excellent choir can be judged as much from “Happy Birthday” as it can be from Beethoven. Given that the only time I’ve heard your choir was from _Happy Feet_, I have to go by that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/7 "2007-12-31T04:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Well…the \*Missa Solemnis \* doesn’t scale the dizzy heights in quite the same way as the Happy Feet score, but we’ll give it our best shot. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Your choir is on the Happy Feet soundtrack? That is one of our (three-year-old) daughter’s favorite movies. Which bits do you sing? Like, the choral bits when it’s winter and the male penguins are incubating the eggs and waiting for the sun to return? This is very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/8 "2007-12-31T15:51:01Z")
Damnit! Now I’ve got to go and get me Happy Feet in English! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-looks-like-the-pope-may-attend-one-of-our-concerts-next-year/430294/9 "2007-12-31T23:38:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] Your choir is on the Happy Feet soundtrack? That is one of our (three-year-old) daughter’s favorite movies. Which bits do you sing? Like, the choral bits when it’s winter and the male penguins are incubating the eggs and waiting for the sun to return? This is very cool. [/QUOTE] Yes, we recorded all of the choral bits when the penguins are singing as a group. We liked the egg incubation bit too. Previous thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383255&highlight=happy+feet)