Chorus America: Voices of Reconciliation

For this article, we asked choruses to tell us about a time
when they felt an urgency to stage a concert centered on the themes
of peace and reconciliation. Some choruses said they were prompted
by specific historical events, others by violence in their own
backyards, still others by the conditions of poverty and oppression
that are the soil in which conflict and war take root. Their
stories reveal how a simple idea can galvanize unexpected bursts of
programming creativity, singer enthusiasm, and community
engagement.