Monday, August 07, 2000

Concert remembers Hiroshima

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Japanese performers at event dedicated to peace

By Reid Forgrave
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        After visiting the peace museum in Hiroshima, Japan, Dave Emery watched his ice cream melt and contemplated life. Then he wrote a song.

        “Eating ice cream on the park bench, contemplating this meltdown. Little Boy of precious metal, atom split high over ground,” he wrote in his song “Everything is a Beginning.”

        He dedicated the song to the survivors of the World War II atomic blast.

        “A flash of fire consumed the living, a second split they were no more. If we did this in the name of peace, I'd hate to see if it was war,” the song continued.

        The Anderson Township singer will perform his song today at the 15th annual Prayer Concert for Peace at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington.

        The concert will occur one day after the 55th anniversary of the first use of atomic weapons.

        Also performing are the Sakura Ladies Chorus, an ensemble of Japanese women that includes Mr. Emery's wife, and the Kentucky Kids Bell Choir, a group of Japanese and Japanese-American children.

        The concert, sponsored by the Cincinnati Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, the cathedral and the Japan-America Society of Greater Cincinnati, will be 7:30-9 p.m.

        Dove-shaped pieces of paper will be passed out for concertgoers to write peace messages on. The papers will go to a peace monument in Hiroshima.

        The blast “was a sad event,” Mr. Emery said, “but we remember Hiroshima not to remember the hate but to remember how important peace is.”

       

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