JOHN PAUL II ATTENDS CONCERT BY VIENNA PHILHARMONIC

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - Last evening in the Paul VI Hall, Pope John Paul II attended a concert offered by the Republic of Austria on the occasion of the Jubilee. The Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Riccardo Muti, performed Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor.

At the end of the concert, the Pope thanked the conductor, choir and orchestra. "By performing the 'Great Mass'," he said, "we have been able to experience once again how artistic beauty is a privileged way to arrive at the Mystery and to find satisfaction for one's inner need for light and peace. I hope that a return to the patrimony transmitted to us by past generations will promote a new season of artistic creations which, opening the hearts and minds of the men and women of the new millennium to 'Beauty' and 'Truth', will help them rediscover the greatness and dignity of their vocation of being human."

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