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| Mozart Orphanage Mass (Waisenhausmesse) |
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| 03/15/06 |
Three concerts to benefit Pro-Busqueda, an organization that is re-uniting children (mostly kidnapped and given away or sold by the military) and parents torn apart by war from 1980-1992.
Saturday, March 18
8:00 p.m.
Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, Walnut Creek
Directions and map
Sunday, March 19
4:00 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
Directions and map
Friday, March 24
8:00 p.m.
St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco
Directions
Flyer: http://www.uucb.org/music/pdf/Mozart_flyer_uucb_1mar06.pdf
This beautiful music was composed and conducted by Mozart in 1768 for the opening of the church and adjoining orphanage in Vienna, and the choir consisted of the orphan boys.
Pro-Busqueda was started by Jon Cortina, a Spanish Jesuit, a decade ago, and as of 2004 had investigated and documented 743 cases, of which it had resolved 292. With the help of U.C. Berkeley, the group has pioneered the use of DNA to aid in confirming relationships.
(Information from Nat'l Catholic Reporter, April 25, 2005 - cover story by Paul Jeffrey).
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