Posted by Webster\u00a0<\/i> The next clip has been making the rounds. I found it at Daily Grace<\/a>. There\u2019s a reason it\u2019s been making the rounds\u2014another one of those musical collaborations that might have been unthinkable when I was a teenager: Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, a Gospel choir, and our Holy Mother!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ziHZoCnyfs<\/a>\n I think we have to pick up the pace. Here\u2019s a happy clip Frank found\u2014just in case anyone doubted our sympathies at YIM Catholic! <\/p>\n
Later today I will be posting at some length about \u201cNew York Encounter 2010,\u201d a series of cultural events sponsored by Communion & Liberation. This has been going on in New York City over the three-day weekend and concludes with one final event this morning at 10 a.m.<\/a> Last night, as part of the Encounter, I witnessed a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer\u2019s 1928 silent film \u201cThe Passion of Joan of Arc,\u201d with a live musical accompaniment by the Communion & Liberation choir and the Metro Chamber Orchestra. Here is the penultimate sequence in the film, in which Joan reverses her recantation and\u2014beautifully\u2014receives communion before her execution. The music is from \u201cVoices of Light\u201d by Richard Einhorn, which was written to accompany the film and played live in its entirely last night.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tOkFm-nHLq8<\/a>\n