Rome: the best of music, the worst of music

Interesting headline from Sandro Magister, "Great Music in the Churches of Rome. But in the Vatican, They're Deaf" (www.chiesa, December 3, 2008): "The Wiener Philarmoniker and other illustrious performers have played in the Roman basilicas, in one case with the pope present. But there's paralysis in the curia. The musical accompaniment of the papal Masses continues to be of appalling mediocrity."