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			<title><![CDATA[ Need a publisher for my songs!!! ]]></title>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Hi everyone, I love writing songs and I have various songs of different genres....How do I get hold of
producers to publish my songs and most important how do I approach them. I do need the contact details of many of them so that I can approach them at large. I
know that this is not easy …but I do have confidence in my lyrics and know that they have a chance.</p>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:19:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Any knows any good online lessons for learning guitar? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="posttext">After sitting around and wishing I knew how to play the guitar, I&#39;ve finally
decided to just go ahead and learn.</span> I&#39;m not new to music by any means, I&#39;ve been playing violin and piano since I was 5 years old (I&#39;m now
24) and have been in some light touch with the guitar.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">My biggest problem now is where to start. I also understand that there are two different... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Sacred Music ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I thought it a good idea to start a new thread on this topic as we don&#39;t appear to have one relevant in this section.
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You might like to know that BBC4 is broadcasting a 4-part series called &#39;Sacred Music&#39; which started to air on Good Friday. The first two episodes have
now been shown.
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The host is a man who was in a cathedral choir as a boy and who still feels drawn to the power of church music. The first episode dealt with the development of
Gothic polyphony... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ God built it in Us ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h4>SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH NEUROLOGIST OLIVER SACKS</h4><a title="Interview with Oliver Sacks" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,541202,00.html"></a>

<p><strong><a title="Spiegel Interview with Oliver Sacks" target="_blank" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,541202,00.html"><font size="5">&#39;I Think of Us as a Musical Species&#39;</font></a>
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<p><strong>SPIEGEL:</strong> You are obviously aware of your own passion for music.... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Islamic Issues in Art and Culture ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <strong class="quote-title">On 2/29/2008 galantarie wrote in the Pope Benedict and Islam thread:</strong>
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  <a title="Risky satire" target="_blank" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,538666,00.html">BERLIN EXHIBITION CLOSED</a>
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  The exhibition, which also satirizes Jewish extremists
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  <p class="spAutorenzeile">By David Gordon Smith</p>

  <p class="spIntrotext">A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:48:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Helmut Krebs 1913-2007 ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HELMUT KREBS abscheidet in die Ewigkeit am Donnerstag, 30 AUG. 2007 haben.<br>Die Trauerfeier findet am Freitag, dem 14. Sept. 2007, um 13.00 Uhr in der <br>St. Annen-Kirche, Knigen-Luise-Strae 55, 14195 Berlin statt.<br><br>Seht:<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/theorbo/HELMUT_KREBS.htm">Helmut Krebs</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> was everything in the world to me....<div class='signature'>"I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."<br>[Ratzinger:"Salt... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:27:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jos Saramago, the Heretic ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.bombsite.com/images/saramago.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26saramago-t.html?th=&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=all"> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>A PROPHET WHO DENIES HIMSELF</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> </a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Fernanda Eberstadt writes<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>His first big... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:24:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bergman passes into Eternity ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89.<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Jeder Film ist mein letzter...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>From a very early age, I admired his cinematic inventions, screenplays and novels. His father was a Pastor which always supplied a moralistic view on life; but he was never able to shake a morbidity and lack of spiritual fulfillment.<br>He left nine children. (His last wife died in 1995.) He was... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:50:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thoughts on Society and &quot;Classical&quot;-Music ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The follow I excerpted from <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/arts/music/29oest.html?_r=1&amp;th=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;emc=th&amp;adxnnlx=1185723503-D7RrBO9A5qBjK4kDb29YMA&amp;pagewanted=all">Today's <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>NEW YORK TIMES</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Magazine:</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:40:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Benedict XVI on Choral Performance ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Pope: Choral Singing Educates for Peace<br><br>Calls It Training for Life<br><br>LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy, 22 JULY 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says that choral singing is an authentic education in life and peace, and an exercise in the &quot;hearing of the heart.&quot;<br><br>The Pope said this Friday following a concert in his honor performed by Alpine choirs at the Castle of Mirabello, near where he is vacationing until July 27. <br><br>&quot;Training in singing, in singing in choir,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:54:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ J.R.R.Tolkien: &quot;Book of Jonah&quot; ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ In 1966, J.R.R. Tolkien translated the &quot;Book of Jonah&quot; for the &quot;Jerusalem Bible&quot; in its first English edition from the original Hebrew. The illustrations were drawn/painted by Salvador Dali.<br><br>The text can be found <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.geocities.com/domachowski/jonah.html" target="top">here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>The Jerusalem Bible<br>&quot;Jonah&quot;<br>translated by J.R.R. Tolkien <br><br>The word of Yahweh [I AM] was addressed to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Great Performances ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ July 3 is the first anniversary of the death of mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, the most transcendent singer I have had the privilege to hear.  Her performances in Handel operas were unforgettable; her renditions of Bach were perfection itself.  Now, on Youtube you can see some snippets of her greatness:<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlt1UxjvWU"><br>Handel, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Theodora</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, <!--EZCODE ITALIC... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:32:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Berlin's Museum Island ]]></title>
			<link>http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/topic/1028/t/Berlin-s-Museum-Island.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan:<br><br>Berlin's Museum Island, is a complex of world renowned museums that are slowly being restored to their former glory.<br>The newest building, the James Simon Gallery, will act as a reception center, linking the five major museums on the UNESCO world heritage site, and finally forming a single entry point for the millions of visitors who visit Berlin's cultural jewel each year. The new James Simon Gallery is named after a Jewish... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For the Wagner fans a little surprise and live from Munich ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>Thank you for all the responses about Richard Wagner and Parsifal.<br><br>Here are some highlights for you all to enjoy from live radio broadcasts from Munich over the last few years.<br><br>Happy listening.<br><br><b>Lohengrin Vorspiel</b> conducted by <i>Peter Schneider</i><br><br>to download Click <a href="http://manlyolching.homepage.t-online.de/Lohengrin.zip" <br> Here</a> <br><br><b>Siegfried's Trauermusik</b> conducted by <i>Zubin Metha</i><br><br>to download Click <a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:31:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Der Palantir-Konvent ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.tolkiens-welt.de/banner/konvent2005.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>THE CONVENT:<br>The Palantir-Konvent began on &quot;Corpus Christi&quot;, the 05-8th May 2005 on grounds of the beautiful-castle on the Rhine at Oberweselstatt. <br>The beautiful-castle deams itself to be one of the oldest castles on the Rhine. <br>Who had the castle built is not known. The castle was widened in the year 1237. Later, in the year 1689, the castle... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:24:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Benedictine Arch Abbey of St Ottilien Bavaria ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dear Forum members,<br><br>Having led you up the garden path by removing those lovely pictures I thought you may like to see some more from my spiritual home here in Bavaria.<br><br>This is the beautiful Arch Abbey of St Ottilien which is actually in the region of Landsberg and is in the diocese of Augsburg.This is a large cloister with well over 100 monks and they are the Missionary Benedictines with houses in Africa, Korea and all over the world. Abbot Primas Notker Wolf OSB was the last... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:57:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My Apologies and private Bavarian Cloister photos reloaded ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->  Sorry everyone I cleaned out my photo bucket forgetting that the link is necessary to up load to the forum.<br><br>If you look again at that string they are now reloaded.<br><br>Here is my &quot;Wiedergutmachen&quot; my make good again offering for you all.<br><br>M<br><br>I have added a few of the St Georgs Kirchl' where Fr Josef Ratzinger served his first term as... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Bavarian Abbey Church of St Mary Frstenfeldbruck ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dear Board members,<br><br>This is one of the most beautiful late Baroque cloister churches in Bavaria and indeed Germany. It is just a 10 min drive from my home and was formerly a Cistercian Abbey until the secularisation and is now a training school for the State Police Force of Bavaria and the Church has permanent and unristricted use of the abbey church for masses and concerts.<br><br>For more information:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:07:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Problem of Relativism in Theatre: some thoughts ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <b>Relativism and Theatre</b><br><br><i>A little background information</i><br><br><span style="font-family:verdana; font-size:small;">The Bavarian State Opera (BSO) with the new chief conductor Kent Nagano is one of the worlds most beautiful and important opera houses situated in Munich, a city with a population a little under 1.5 million people. Actually, we have three beautiful opera houses in Munich and three major international orchestras conducted by Zubin Mehta (BSO 1998-2006 and still... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rock music ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Joseph Ratzinger described it as a &quot;vehicle of anti-religion&quot;. What do you think about it?  Is it really devil's music? What does it mean?<br><br>What about Christian rock music? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
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