WORLDWIDE WEDNESDAY: Karl Jenkins, "Benedictus" (from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace)

Ladies and Gentlemen, today we introduce an unprecedented move at Tuna Day. For the indefinite future, I will now be handing over the reins to a guest DJ every Wednesday. Mr. Peter Jordan, longtime follower, has now been given carte blanche. I'll let him explain...

Our station manager had a moment of weakness and has decided to let me have a little fun on Wednesdays. Right now it's just a probationary period, so let him know up or down.

'Worldwide Wednesday' will try to toss out tunes that have some (very tenuous) connection to current events. If all goes well, we should be incorporated into seventh grade social studies curricula nationwide.

Pope Benny has but two days remaining of infallibility (or does he get to keep that?), so he's our first subject.

At first I thought Johnny Paycheck's 'Take This Job and Shove It.' But, no, how about the Von Trapp family with their very best 'So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu?' It's multi-lingual, trans-border, inter-generational, and it has memories of autocratic Germans!

In the end, we're going somewhat classy. 'Benedictus' from Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. (A little longer than most videos, and probably the last time I'll post anything classical or ecclesiastical.)