{"id":35196,"date":"2016-08-28T06:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=35196"},"modified":"2016-08-20T20:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:35:53","slug":"random-churches-of-rome-1-karl-jenkins-stabat-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/08\/random-churches-of-rome-1-karl-jenkins-stabat-mater.html","title":{"rendered":"Random Churches of Rome 1: Karl Jenkins&#8217; Stabat Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Some of the most delightful moments in my\u00a0exploring Rome this summer were unscripted moments when I happened to be passing a church and decided to enter. Sometimes I found incredible works of art. Once I found a performance going on of Karl Jenkins\u2019 Stabat Mater, in the\u00a0Sant\u2019Andrea della Valle church in Piazza Vidoni.\u00a0Having come in while the performance\u00a0or a rehearsal was already underway, I didn\u2019t stay very long. But while I was there, the sounds of\u00a0in that setting was breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35201\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/07\/IMG_2615-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2615\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>Click below for more photos from this church, which is impressive visually, even as it also was musically on the occasion of my wandering into it.<br>\n<!--nextpage--><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35202\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/07\/IMG_2616-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2616\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/p>\n<p>And one more photo follows, with the vocalists in it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35203\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/07\/IMG_2617-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2617\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most delightful moments in my\u00a0exploring Rome this summer were unscripted moments when I happened to be passing a church and decided to enter. 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