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'Ashes Into Light': a meditation on Nagasaki bombing

Wed, 2008-10-08 10:02 — Robyn

The fathers of Oregon composer Robert Kyr and Japanese Zen-Buddhist writer Kazuaki Tanahashi fought on opposing sides in World War II. But now the sons of these warriors, along with arts organizations in Minnesota and Japan, are collaborating on what is being billed as a "meditation" on one of the defining moments in 20th century history: the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.

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