A VISION FOR AMERICA
“TRAITOR: A STORY OF PATRIOTS” FILM
HOW MUSIC LIFTED A NATION…
AND GAVE AMERICA ITS VOICE BACK.
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
“America, we have not forgotten you. We know where you are and we are coming back to get you. Don’t-you-worry…” - jen appel
UNITING A NATION THROUGH MUSIC.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” - Leonard Bernstein
“Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
“Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
The People
We need to see ourselves.
We need to hear our collective truth.
Our National Identity is Up to Us.
“And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land…” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
BUT SOMEWHERE I READ…
PODCAST with Deepak Puri - longer version found here on Digital Politics with Karen Jagoda