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Jun 19, 2006

"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness ... let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world." --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Musical Protest of Courage and Beauty

It was May 27th, 1992, in Sarajevo. A group of civilians were standing in a breadline, hoping for their share of a dwindling food supply when a mortar shell fell from the sky. Twenty-two innocent men, women and children were killed. It was May 28th, 1992, when principal cellist of the Sarajevo Opera Orchestra, Vedran Smailovic, took his cello to the crater left by the deadly blast and, amidst the sniper fire, played for 22 consecutive days: one for each of his friends and neighbors who he had seen die before his very own eyes. Peacemaker Hero Jason Crowe reflects deeply on this protest of courage and beauty.