A Singing Revolution

A Cappella News points us to the Pittsburgh Gazette's review of "A Singing Revolution," the movie about Estonia's peaceful revolution and separation from Russia.

Here's how the reviewer describes the scene:

In days of not-so-yore, too, as we come to find out in "The Singing Revolution," a very powerful and very musical documentary by husband-and-wife team James and Maureen Castle Tusty chronicling the Estonian people's struggle to throw off Soviet occupation.

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"The Singing Revolution," a true tale of how culture saved a nation, should be required viewing in history classrooms worldwide, with its revelation that music and sheer force of will can topple tyrants. You can get regime change without bloodshed, not from outside but inside, where the song itself comes from. One little country, 1 million voices in unison: the right to bear music, more potent than to bear arms.

Read the entire review.