Song:
Cranes over Hiroshima
Written by:
Fred Small
Arranged by:
Dave Marston

peace journey to Hiroshima
August 2006

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience
Hideko Tamura is a second soprano with the Rogue Valley Peace Choir, a retired social worker, an author and a survivor of the atomic bomb blast that devastated Hiroshima August 6, 1945. One night after choir rehearsal, she stood up and said the music we’d made that night had so inspired her that she had a vision of the choir going to Hiroshima to sing. She felt confident, she said, that her friends and contacts and her former school would support the idea. What follows is an account of the realization of that dream written by one of the participants, with the voices of other choir members blended in. continued >>>