Light Rain, 67 °F Remembering 9/11
DEN SHOTS:
This weekend, Denisonians honored the memories of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, with activities across the campus and beyond. Volunteer students cleaned up a section of the Licking River and tended the Community Gardens in Newark. Others staffed a family night for the community, showing the movie Wall-E, and worked with Licking Memorial Hospital to provide free health screenings. And Sunday evening, at an interfaith service of healing and peace, Swasey Chapel echoed with the music of a 60-voice community choir singing Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem,” featuring soloists Kevin Wines, tenor, Belinda Andrews-Smith, soprano, and Andy Carlson, violin, all members of the faculty of Denison’s Department of Music.
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11:32 AM September 16, 2011
Mark wrote:
The Interfaith Concert for Healing and Peace included powerful prayers from six of the world’s religious traditions as a demonstration of a constructive response to counter the tragedy of terrorism. It was an example of the positive religious impulses that are largely ignored in the world and as a consequence, fundamentalist voices override. The 60 voice choir included voices from many churches who came together as a show of solidarity to honor those those lives lost and to express hope for a better world.