GENEVA IN 1898: Fisk Jubilee Singers coming back to Smith Opera … – Finger Lakes Times

There has come upon us a time when we yearn for what we know not, when there are no words within us to compass the slaughter of innocents, nor any way to look away, only the knowledge that if we look away, we deny our own humanity.

We join the cloud of secular witnesses who have sought transcendence in poetry, literature, music, and the arts, those nuanced expressions of loss, longing, and love that define us as…