Profile and video clip of singer songwriter Carrie Newcomer, a Quaker activist, teacher and musician from Indiana who circles the world as a peacemaker.
Category: Music Festival
Leonard Bernstein
Peacemaker and author Daniel Buttry profiles Leonard Bernstein’s conducting of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the “Freedom Concert” in Berlin in 1989.
Pablo Casals
Peace activist and author Daniel Buttry profiles the world-famous cellist Pablo Cassals, who eventually was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Vedran Smajlović
Peace activist and author Daniel Buttry profiles Vedran Smajlović (b. 1956), better known as “The Cellist of Sarajevo,” and includes a video of the piece.
Patrick Gilmore
ReadTheSpirit Editor David Crumm profiles Patrick S. Gilmore, the American band composer who organized two vast peace jubilees in Boston in 1869 and 1872.