This won’t be your everyday field trip. For one thing, close to 200 children, college students and others from Minnesota will be performing a new choral work at the sites of former Nazi death camps during a two-week tour of Europe.
For another, “To Be Certain of the Dawn” takes as its subject not just the Holocaust of World War II but nearly 2,000 years of Christian anti-Semitism.
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1:28 pm
Good for them.
I’m certain, with St. Cloud involved, that something nasty and ugly will rear its head somewhere re: this very moving and worthy event. Sigh.
I have been to Dachau, and I have never been to a place with such a tangible feel of evil in it. I shudder at the thought of it, all these years later.
1:43 pm
That’s very cool that they are doing this.
But leave the katanas on the shelf, kids.
2:42 pm
I saw the premier and liked it.