ENGLISH ONLY?

posted by James Reel

    Um, can this message deposited at the KUAT Web site after we played the Mozart Requiem be serious?

You know that it is becoming more difficult by the day to find anyone who speaks English. Sometimes I wonder if I'm still in the United States. There is a major difference between broadcasting Shubert's Mass in G and broadcasting an entire mass in some language that I have no clue of. Please try to encourage the use of English for those of us in the minority who still use it.

    Well, as our music director pointed out to the correspondent, almost every Mass and Requiem is in Latin. That's the way it is. We can't demand that performers and record companies translate the text into English. If the correspondent admits that Latin is "some language that I have no clue of," may I respectfully suggest that it's time to get a clue. Of what benefit is ignorance, even of a dead language?