An interview with the composer of The Pope of the People

By Tom Quiner

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I consider the late Pope John Paul II to be one of the most important persons of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have written a musical, The Pope of the People, on the dramatic first ten years of his papacy.

I talk a little about the piece in the interview above.