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Breathe on Me, Breath of God
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A documentary following the BGHS Madrigal Singers on a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union.
A documentary following the Bowling Green High School Madrigal Singers on a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union including Estonia, Latvia and Moscow. The program provides scenes of the Madrigals in concert and during their travels and explores the students' reaction to what they see and experience. Tina Rahe's, a WBGU-TV staff member experiences of traveling to Estonia are also highlighted.
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Breathe on Me, Breath of God
Special | 58m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
A documentary following the Bowling Green High School Madrigal Singers on a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union including Estonia, Latvia and Moscow. The program provides scenes of the Madrigals in concert and during their travels and explores the students' reaction to what they see and experience. Tina Rahe's, a WBGU-TV staff member experiences of traveling to Estonia are also highlighted.
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I saw a lot of people that were hurt over the fact of We were American after we'd seen other people suf And to me, that hurt me because our decision that we were born h And we are, by the grace of God, lucky that I was.
I'm by the grace of God, lucky that I was born here.
And she said, thank you.
We loved that song very much.
And fighting back the tears at t And and she says to me, I I want to thank you for coming h And I said, oh, you know, you're It's no problem.
And and she leaned forward and we dream of freedom to ride in, into my face like it was a despe for for help, you know that.
So as if I could do something.
I interpret those words as, as a supreme being, putting a bl on something that you are doing or trying to do, and somehow making things seem o Or maybe in some cases, even better than okay.
When it's very difficul to even get through the next hou or the next day, perhaps.
On April 8th, 1990 a group of 17 high school studen from Bowling Green, Ohio gathered at the Detroit Metro Ai as they were preparing to leave what was promising to be the most incredible journey of their young lives.
The group was the Bowling Green High School Madrigal Singers, and they, along with their dire Brown, a small group of adult co and a television crew, were abo on a goodwill tour of the Soviet runnin through the group was a great fe of anticipation mixed with a sense of apprehensi for many of the students it was their first major trip of but of greater concern was the u of wha they would find upon their arriv The group's itinerary included stops in Len and Moscow, as well as the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
However, on Marc 11th, just weeks before their de Lithuania had declared its indep from the Soviet Union, and now, with a buildup of Sovie in that state, Estonia and Latvia were also thr to secede.
Profound changes were taking plac throughout eastern Europe and ev it seemed, repression was being by freedom and democracy.
And now, as the group departed the very heart of the Eastern Bl countries the Soviet Union was caught in t Many believe they were about to witness the emerg of a new Soviet Union from that a storm of chang seemingly as inevitable as time and as compelling as the Breath For.
Action.
He was widely known as one.
Who, Lord knows.
We are me.
All before you call me Lord.
Under the this holy followed what was going on.
For you know who we are.
We owe.
So shall we.
Jesus future.
Even if I keep you in you going.
If I soul to see is working with We glory.
The Lord.
The first stop on the tour was the city of Leningrad, once known as Saint Petersburg founded in 1703 by Czar Peter th It served as the capital of Rus from that time until the Communi revolution in 1914.
Home to some 5 million people, Leningrad is locate on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
It is situated not only on the but on a series of small islands And although no longer carrying the political importance it had imperial times, a sense of grandeur remains throughout the city.
It's all the same.
After a morning spent sightseeing, the madrigal made their first appearance in L at a choral academy for boys.
It's German school.
We studied German here and you also knew our Russian.
Now you have actually four choic So can you hear me?
It's American students.
So, there will be three groups n going to the classes of musical And Anna, the official Soviet guide for the tour, extended an invitation from the to visit their various classroom So those would like to listen to this piano concert.
Well, sort of a concert will sta And those who like to, go to th of musical theory will follow.
this lady, her name is Irina.
So, and way to divide the grou into the musical theater classes Into three parts I guess, in cooperation with us.
The visit to the classes reveale these young students study at an advanced level.
The classrooms that we visite at the Choral Academy in Leningr were incredibly intense.
the one that I witnessed was fil with probably seven and eight ye learning things that I think, first yea college music students would be complex things, chord structures having to sing acapella when a, when an instructo would play a really complex chor they'd have to sing the chords the notes just off the top of th And what they wanted was to lea and they wanted to participate.
You could see it on their faces.
There was just this incredible i Oh, your, being in the school I think, and being in that parti classroo was a very emotional experience I felt that I was in the Soviet Union and I felt that we were somehow getting to do something that th majority of tourists and visitor to that country never experienc that they may drive by that scho and see it from the outside, but they certainly aren't sitting right in the classrooms watching the teachers teach.
And the kids respond.
so I felt that was a very that was a very special time.
so let me try to, you know, returning back to the theater the madrigals found the school c rehearsing for one for the new s all sorts of, so, you know, the locals.
Although this visit was not a sc performance, the madrigals thanked their host with some music of their own, like focus on turning songs for New York.
Stories that give you peace and give you.
Hey, I give you these small.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
000.
Going on.
A local school official formall welcomed the group to the Soviet Very grateful.
Well, just just to the fait that now we can meet, American p not only on the political level, but just in common level as well, on people's level I'm watching another version of Do you find it on the street?
You meet us there with nearby st Souvenir, father.
So, we were glad that you visite And so we'd like to give you ju a small souvenir as a kind of a That I'm here with you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Roxanne.
Later that evening, the Bowling Green High School Madrigals gave their first conce in the Soviet Union.
Their performance was for stude and parents from the choral Acad they had visited that day.
For me to stay at home and as it was, it would be very easily behind us.
The third and fourth graders for presentat with necessary schools.
Songs of the three of us today.
So the me Lord and.
Word of God always work on us.
Is the story whose who has me, all of us.
For those.
Oh, let us hold us.
During their short stay in Leningrad the madrigals spent much of thei traveling by bus from one landma to another.
Often, there was only enough ti to step off the bus for a photog before departing for a new locat To them, 0040900 Oh.
Oh.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa who whoa.
And now we're goin straight to the museum on the wa Oh.
That's fantastic.
Stop!
But no magic restoration of all That's great.
Okay, great.
Yeah.
After we.
The.
Oh!
Oh, lovely.
There I should.
Actually, what do you recognize now is the Victory Square and is a memorial to the novelis and San Luis Obispo.
And built in 1975 to mark the anniversary of their victory in Yeah, I guess you know.
Oh.
Hey.
In spite of the hurried schedule there were opportunities for the madrigal to have brief encounters with th These two kids came up and appro And, you know, Tony I kind of want to get a hat for And so the kid pulls out this b rabbit hat, and Tony's like, oh, And the kid goes, oh, that's ten And so Tony's holding the hat under one arm, and he's opening up as well to ten bucks before I can even get And I pulled out my money.
I was looking at my mone and I was kind of just looking d I didn't really, and when I looked up, these two military policemen came up and g the two black marketers and took them away.
And I was standing there with th and the money.
I just kind of put the money ba in my pocket and shoved the hat And we were scared for about 15 But that was quite, quite a fun that I had.
The interaction with black mark would continue throughout the en exchanging dollars into ruble through anything but official So was strictly illegal, yet the group was constantly and openly approached almost eve they went.
The blac market is flourishing in the Sov and I think it probably i the only thing that is growing.
We had people come up to us and ask, change money?
I still am not real sure about h how they made a profit on the th but they did.
They would offer you ten rubles for your $1, whereas the bank would offer you six rubles to $1.
So a lot of people changed a lot besides changing money, they had goods stuffed in their which they had.
They had flag and they had mature dollars, and watches and they had caviar.
It was amazing.
They were like little walking tourist shops.
A lot of the kids really felt that they were giving American dollars to young people in the Soviet U and that that would help them.
I think in a in a sense, they re that they were being helpful.
It was fun for them, too.
It was something they had heard before they came, and there it was happening.
On Thursday morning, the madrigals pack the and prepare to travel to Estonia the first of the Baltic states on their schedule.
On the same day, the Estonian pa would vote overwhelmingly to end all military service to the Soviet Union.
However, the group isolate it fr normal news source would be unaware of this develop The bus trip from Leningrad t Estonia will take most of the da In spite of this everyone attempts to make the be of their limited surroundings, but for some it is a chance to v and enjoy the scenery, for others, a chance to catch up on some much needed rest.
We dealt with riding on the bus with laughter.
That was the only thin that got us through those times.
We would.
We would chang seats, sit with different people Now for this hour sit with this person, change and and we would listen to comedy ta on our Walkmans and watch out th and play chess and and thing to keep our mind off the bus rid I slept a lot because we didn' really sleep too much at night, and we would listen to music and to people that we necessarily h really talked to in the group be I got to know a lot of people th so we just kind of hang out.
With Alex on that tape, we really seem to gel together and I thought it was really neat I mean, the overall feeling, everyone was so excited and the hype was so good that i it was just it wasn't that bad.
I didn't seem to mind it at all.
I don't think any of the other m really did.
We got to know each other a lot and and I'm glad of that.
Last time around midday, the group reaches the Estonian b at the small town of Narva.
And now we're in this poignant.
For a member of the television c the moment is particularly meani My parents were born and raised for about 20 years in Estonia, in the southeastern part of the and they were forced to leave to evacuate, to escape.
When Stalin's troops moved in, in the mid 40s, 1944, they went to deportatio camps in West Germany, and from eventually fled to America.
In Narva, everyone has a chance to stretch their legs and enjoy the local scenery.
After a cit the size of Leningrad, Narva see relaxed and inviting.
Several of the madrigals give Tina flower to commemorate her arrival in Es This year, some say, maybe just before boarding the b for Tallinn, the madrigal surprise Tina with a serenade.
They sing?
Yes, they leap.
An Estonian song taught to them Back in Bowling Green.
Because I was thinking about my parents, I was thinking all the relatives that I hadn't because they were deported to Siberia in the 40s.
I was thinking about these thes that I didn't even really know.
These great high school people that I thought were basically e and really feeling this feeling.
Listen.
And here they were, just pourin their hearts out to me and shari in a way that was just incredibl But I was thinking about thing that I can't even remember now.
There were just so many thoughts running through my head like, I just thought, this can't be happening.
And I looked up in front of this baker and there were several apartment above the bakery, and there were these elderly Estonian women singing along.
And I can just imagine what kind of an experienc it was for them, because this is they hadn't been able to sing fo some odd years, and I knew what it meant to them and that made it mean even more I, so I asked her if she was pleasantly that this was an hour outside of The group is delayed by tire tro While the drivers work on the pr Jim Brown gather the madrigals together for a reh It will be their only chance to before their concert that evenin To do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do du du du du du du du du du du du du du du Lord.
Be joyful and sin your love is so much more enjoya for my singing of, a song that will sing for the sake of t Have a peaceful way.
It's a matter of worship of the no no no no no no.
The concert that evening is at T High School.
Number two.
In spite of their late arrival the madrigals give one of their best performances to the audien which had waited patiently for t Responds warmly to each number, responds, I saw what my parents always talked about.
This love for music that Estonia have, this love for singing, this wonderful tradition in song And I saw it coming to life.
I see oh, oh, oh, come and say you love me.
Oh memory.
So I say oh I see no reason.
La la la la la la la la la la la Oh oh.
Thank you.
This is her day.
Your calling it, This way.
Arrive at the end of the concert Jim Brown introduces Tina to th after which the madrigals sing.
Yes.
They leap.
The response is overwhelming.
Lift up through the window, through.
Hurry up, hurry up!
The moment Jim Brown hi those three chords on the piano.
The moment they heard those cho they rose to their feet immediat They knew exactly what was comin and I looked up at the choi and I saw these startled faces.
I saw a few tears in the eyes.
A That's when it really hit me that they understood.
They understood how much this so meant to them.
And from the choir I looked into the audience, and there were these young Eston the other young Estonians who have so many visions of free so many desires for independence And they were just singing their hearts out because that's what the song that for the madrigals learn.
Yes, they leave thinking of i as nothing more than a favorite But in fact many Estonian consider it to be their national As we sang the first wor and everyone was on their feet.
a few people in the background, were, you know, just pouring down their face for their Estonian flag.
And it wasn't simply the old peo who remembered, you know, how Estonia used to be or were how Stone used to be the teenage I saw several teenagers who were who were crying, who felt that cry just as much as anyone else.
And as we went on singing it I was fighting back the tears.
Everyone, everyone felt such emo even though I did not know exactly what word meant.
What an English I didn't need to I could say it in Estonia and simply feel what it meant.
I don't know that just the feeli of the Estonians their their cry for freedom in t their cry for love and and the b that they wanted with us just sort of, you know, awok something in me right then for t people, the Estonian people, eve has a cry for freedom, for when the choir shared Estela with the audience.
That way, I think everything did It came full circle, and I reali this is what it's all about.
This is.
This is why I'm Estonia and this is why I love music so And this is why I love freedom s And I could see it in everyone's They all felt the same way.
I mean, I was after the concert the madrigals share a moment tog They have been greatly move by the emotion of a performance.
The concert had gone extremely w for many reasons.
The singer sang well and the aco in the hall were wonderful.
And it was one of those nights that doesn't happen real often where you have an aud and a performing group that seemed to be on the same wa the whole time one, two, three, four.
Later that evening the group is invited to a recept by the local cultural guild.
They had traditional Estonian fo and they had traditional Estonia and they had their teacher get up with an int and explain what these things we and explain that these were Esto And then they taught us Estonia folk dances, which were great.
They were so much fun to go back to, but I think they wante to share some things with us, bu they also wante to get an experience out of us t when we first walked in they seemed to really just want We were sitting at tables and t served us their food and their d and they just wanted to watch how we interacted because it was so differen and we were teaching them songs just they really wanted to share part of themselves but they wanted to learn from us of purpose.
Even as the students share their different songs and dances there is a common bond between t And it seemed to me that the te had a real joy in their hearts.
You know even though you know all the thi all the odds against them they were still happy teenagers.
They still, had problems with teachers and and, and, and things that every teenager deals with in their li and had boyfriend girlfriend sit And it just seemed like they were exactly like us.
Their future was just a little b you know they were a lot more restricted But I think at that tim they weren't feeling it as much.
I think that they still had that in, in their hearts.
And that was that was fun to re because I hadn't expected any jo the Soviet Union at all.
And here we go.
Here really back breaking bad, bring back my mone to be bring back require all.
Bring back my Bonnie to me.
And I I. I. I. Pray that bring back the.
May.
Away my Bonnie.
Tell me you know.
At the end of the reception the groups take a moment to say thanks for a wonderful evening.
And, we hope that, it will not b time, but the first time.
Oh, yeah, I know.
Wrap up.
There we go.
Yeah.
So now, the call of long live Fre Estonia reminds the madrigals th the laughter and music there is still freedom to be one All of us just became really patriotic inside.
And I really liked it, seeing the way the Estonian were very patriotic in themselve Because then I kne I wasn't the only one in the wor that was patriotic about my nati You know?
And I really was just kind of go The Lord is with me.
The cit of town is the capital of Estoni the smallest of the Baltic state It is an important Baltic harbor as well as the largest industrial and cultural center i Much medieva architecture remains throughout and calls to mind town's long hi and become the first fruits of t That's, This morning after a short morning concert, the madrigals have the rest of t to tour the city.
Included in the tour is a stop at a schoo located on a flower farm, collec there.
They are greeted by the schoo director, David, with the resour And now there was a time when half of Estonia was considered to be border zone and so nobody was allowed to go to the border zone, visit or going out, in border zone and The now it's all open.
But when you ask the question about your intention to go you could not have come here and You like to see the school?
Yeah, but I still don't understa foreign.
Is so many.
Of us.
These are to.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess we to go and tell us again.
How old are t About the age of the girls from the ninth grade.
After the 12th grade.
That's amazing.
But.
But they think it' the first letter of foreigners.
You may call it was.
And so this year we started to begin to get the c Since we started to produce it o we have.
To learn how to drive the bus.
That was the cause of what I say in front of you.
on Saturday, the group departs f On the way, they stop in the sma Estonian town of Vienna to perform at a local church.
This.
Outside these walls, much is tak President Gorbachev of the Sovi has issued an ultimatum to Lithu Unless they back down on their c for independence, he will cut off their supply of and gas.
But inside the church, there is and hope for the future.
Oh my God, oh, you!
You you.
Oh, sorry, I thought I was nice to hear you say goodbye.
My.
No, no, no, a woman came up to me.
Probably, early 30s, and handed flowers and said, that was very She said, thank you for singing She said, we just now fly our fl so we were not able before now.
And she said, thank you.
We love that song very much.
You know what?
I'm fighting back the tears at t And and she says to me, I I want to thank you for coming h And I said, oh you know, you're welcome here.
It's no problem.
And and she leaned forward and we dream of freedom to write, yo into my face like it was a despe for for help, you know that.
So as if I could do something, be so good.
You.
Say every other.
Send every home.
And to gather the story.
That day was when me be free.
Before finally leaving for Latvi The madrigals visit the local sc Their children welcomed them wit read during their short stay in The group has witnesse no great demonstrations nor viol confrontations regarding the mov toward independence.
Yet everywhere they have sense an undeniable strength of will.
there was a difference in the pe You could see culture in their f They had.
They had a purpose that look in their face was was of determination.
It was of of having their herita and their roots.
That's when they'll be free.
We are really ordinary, simple, hardworking people who would like to hav the essential freedoms and right that nobody else would decide fo if we are allowed to call us Estonians or not, if we're allowe to speak in our native language, if we're allowed to develop our if we are allowed to travel abro or to meet friends in our homes.
So just for what?
For other countries it is just e and for us is a dream.
And it was hard for me after I left to say, Gorbachev is doing what he can d He he needs to have you know, he can't let these peo And I and I couldn't help thinki he has to let them go.
He doesn't have any choice.
out on the outskirts of the day, the group encounter the ruins of an ancient castle.
For a moment or two the setting provides an escape f the rigors of the tour, but.
They go home for half no time.
Oh.
He was all smiles.
Oh, you, So.
I feel Easter morning finds the group in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
At breakfast, the madrigals rece that has been sent alon as a surprise by their parents.
They are able to spend a few min thinking of home before leaving on another tour.
Yeah, at least I know what is in that on the 3rd o May will have their session of P and probably it will pass the l to secede from the Soviet Union.
Why?
This mornin the madrigals are to take a walk of the old city of Riga.
Before they begin, their guide, speaks to them about the current political situ in the Baltic states.
Still, the needle quote now, since the perestroika is in we are experiencing this, the different All three countries, all three Baltic countries would like to secede from the Soviet Union.
And, we'd better wait and see.
But, they are very very determined to do it at all yesterday, the, people from Mosc sponsored the opinion pol and it turned out that in Lithua for the time being, 98% Lithuani are for independence.
40% of Russians are for independ and 60% of poles are for indepen You can see the situation, but, the situation is very, very dif to put it mildly, ladies and gen Okay.
I'm not going to let you build by the local people here.
That's why some, people say tha the Riga bears a resemblance to to say, some Hanseatic towns, like Stock Prague and other, cities and towns of Europe.
The center and.
Oh.
In the afternoon, the madrig give an Easter concert at a former Anglican church, now under restoration.
us and, this is for Jimmy Carter.
Coming mean one for 24 to 20 yea Started making time for my mom.
She was with us all to us.
And his car was.
Oh, that was his only purpose.
Is on.
It was.
It's all.
About him.
It was more for us.
Of us.
And, his.
Words.
On Monday Eugene takes the group to the si of a former Naz extermination camp at South Shie Here, over 100,000 people were k during the Second World War.
There is the inscription beyond these gate.
The earth is moaning.
He's crying.
And this is this symbolic borderline between death and lif Now we are going to, pass through.
And ther I will tell you more about the f A wrathful, lamenting, tragic figures which symbolize the sufferings and tortures of t people during the Second World.
It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
For us as Americans and as high school students, the whole Nazi experienc is just something we read about.
And we might watch a couple mov but we are never actually there.
And when we remember how very qu that place was, the statues were.
They were awesome.
They they cried.
I remember that metronome tickin in.
There was such a large place No matter where you were, you really could hear that.
And I thought they did a a fantastic job of making it a p That would never be forgotten.
Of making it a place of just ima Eugene said.
It is.
It is for each person to decide which direction we must go.
This is a place that will remind Right in front you can see, the wrathful, immortal and tragic fi But you might have notice they, don't have any pedestals because they are lik the constant reminders of the ho of the Second World War.
The first figure is called, right in front of you.
The, vanquished.
Why so?
Because this man has the broken he's trying to train his lost ef to show and to prove to the worl that he's a human being, not a b Yeah, he was going to be turned original.
Although the original camp has been removed, the spirit of those who suffered remains intact, and the legacy of their ordea weighs heavily upon the group.
The capacity was about 20.
I remember the memorial and to t the children that died, they had like a cement slab.
And then behind barbed wire etched on the slab were children's drawings.
And when Eugene Wood would talk about how the children died, it wasn't thousands people came here and t And I know Eugene said, one cold day 7000 children walked to a bath and it it really made your heart fall.
It was it was horrible.
You know, the main the main pur the main objective of the genoci not to exterminate the person ph but to exterminate him as a huma to make him forget that he's a h and to turn him into a beast.
You know, that's why, but I should say fascists or Naz they did everything except to on they didn't foresee how, strong the human soul the human and the, you know they humiliated the human dignit But at the same time, they didn the invincibility of the human h And they lost the game we were there for, I don't know probably like half hour, 40 minu inside this place, but it really like a lot longer of a time.
And I just remember, like, getting back on the bus and just not really wantin to, like, do anything fun for a You just kind of wanted to think about all that those people had to go through for no real reason.
And it was really, really kind of sickening.
To look at tha in the early with the removal of from their original itinerary the madrigals have two extra day Some of the time is spen visiting local areas of interest You have, a visit to the beach.
Two of the madrigals attempt a in the icy waters of the Baltic Their achievement is marre only by a lack of actual swimmin Walking to die.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Members of the group are abl to go off on their own to shop, with black marketeers, and even political debates in a nearby pa You must stop the dogs.
Throughout their trip the madrigals have witnessed fir shortages of food and goods in the local shops, and they have come to recogniz how valuable freedom really is.
One night after dinner, the madr share their feelings about these observations.
Most people talked about if they were prou to be Americans anymore or not, because we saw so many things that we never imagined we would see the bread lines, an it made me more appreciative of the things we have.
But other people felt very guilt that we are given so much and I I'm very proud that I'm Americ There was a little bit of a con but I think the overall theme wa we need to reexamine our materia We need to rethink, not so much sayin that you have to sell your CD pl or your car, but the fact that, think about how you got that and you better feel lucky for it Was little.
Let's go Hermes that at las the group reaches Moscow, the ca of the Soviet Union, founded in the city is home to some 9 milli With two school concerts in as m There is little tim to explore the expansive city, yet the madrigals are able to se such notable sights as Red square.
And Saint Basil's Cathedral for a visit to Arbat Street reve an unexpected independent spiri right in the heart of the Soviet Here a preacher spreads the gosp while a citizen lectures on political topics.
But yeah, you know I feel like you know what you're I think you yo I still don't see density countr and everywhere stree artists and musicians ply their The final major stop on the tour is a visit insi the Kremlin.
The Kremlin is a walled in complex of buildings which include several churche dating back to the time of the c A local guide shows them the world's largest bell, a bell that has never been 99% of people touch the piece of If you touch it, it gives you tw You can kill two birds with one First, it brings you good luck.
Secondly, it brings you back to So you ought to make up your min How do we get here, chief?
What do you throw mine in the pa Everybody will.
Good bell.
Good family.
Three times.
All right, I'll come back.
On.
This.
One.
You look at each of the Mos concerts.
The madrigals invite their guide Anna, to narrate an introduction to their final song.
May they're always be sunshine a Sing them with songs.
We sing them yellow.
Listen, I'm the mama.
With the.
Blue.
They're always with the time.
They're always on with one.
After each of the concerts, the madrigal have some time to meet the local These are brief yet important mo This is part of the value of bringing groups like this to these countries is that people get to see Americ doing somethin other than just being tourists.
tourists tend to be loud and noi and spend a lot of mone and make life difficult for ever the fact that we com and we sing and we exchange gift with a lot of the people we mee and we sit down and actually tal and take the time to do that makes a real difference in both the lives of these kid and the lives of the people they The madrigals share small mement and candy with the students.
You Find for I'm not sure what they did with all of those little things that we gave them but I have a feeling that they p have them in a fairly special pl Either they're wearing the pins regularl or somewhere on a table in their Maybe they've got that pen or t or the postcard from Bowling Gre I have a feeling that those wer significant things that we gave Welcome do.
Once during their two weeks in Union, the madrigals have shared and powerful moments with each o and with their hosts.
It has been a time they will remember, a time they will take with them as the other places and meet other peop At this moment, there are no ans to the great political question that have stirred the world arou Only these small gestures of kin Two weeks earlier the madrigals were greeted as st Now they say goodbye as friends go by every concert.
I was sitting in the first festi enjoying their songs, and I wish I could sa I wish I could listen more and m but unfortunately, that sound an I'm to say goodbye to the in a couple of hours at the airp And I think that I thin it's a very sad moment for me no So I'd like to call again to exp great attachment and love to all and all of these unusual, to wonderful singing group, which gave me so much.
Hopefully I'll, I've given a lit them as well in return, but what they gav to me was really very precious f So thank you again very much for madrigals, singers from battling, Bowling G So thank you.
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