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The Symposium's plenary sessions featured the following speakers. View their biographies and watch their speeches by clicking on each of their names. Stephen Lewis, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS Edward Cardoza, Partners In Health director of development Dr. John Neafsey, theology senior lecturer at Loyola University Chicago, author and clinical psychologist Dr. David Batstone, Sojourners magazine executive editor The Rev. Ann Svennungsen, the Fund for Theological Education president Dr. Sharon Daloz Parks, Leadership for the New Commons director Symposium participants were also treated to the music of folk singer-songwriters Peter Mayer and Carrie Newcomer. Their soulful and often moving music was interspersed throughout Symposium activities, culminating in an evening coffee house concert.Other vocation-related musical performances included Kyrie, the final movement of Dr. René Clausen's "MEMORIAL," a tribute to the victims of Sept. 11. The Concordia Choir, conducted by Clausen, performed the piece on the morning of the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. "MEMORIAL" is a 30-minute composition commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association that premiered in 2003 at Lincoln Center in New York. Listen to Kyrie (link to a recording of Kyrie--Check to make sure this page is okay)In closing the Symposium, the Horizon Middle School honor choir and eighth-grade orchestra, conducted by Brian Cole, performed "The Promise of Tomorrow," by Clausen. The piece, commissioned by Moorhead Public Schools, is dedicated to the children of the world and written for children's choir and orchestra. Clausen was inspired to write the piece after hearing a Concordia College chapel sermon about the more than 30,000 children who die each day around the world of hunger. He has made the musical score available free of charge and asking people to donate $1 to Save the Children for each copy made. |
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