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Article: Placido Domingo puts musical spin on pope's poems
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- March 13, 2009
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When Placido Domingo and his son, Placido Domingo Jr., set about to put the poems of the late Pope John Paul II to music, they discovered several religious passages, already translated from his native Polish to Italian, that would have made beautiful songs.
But sometime after the pontiff's words were set to music, the legendary tenor had a change of heart _ and decided the focus should be more universal instead of steeped in Catholicism.
"I said, 'This is fine, this is beautiful. ... Maybe one day we should record this,'" he said in an interview. "But ... this pope has been very much loved and admired by everybody, so there should exist other songs. So we found ...