Today, December 14th, is the International Day of Choral Singing.
It's an "initiative of Alberto Grau from the Latin American Vice-Presidency of the International Federation for Choral Music, proposed and approved by the General Assembly of IFCM held in Helsinki in August, 1990, within the framework of the 2nd World Symposium on Choral Music." Read more here about how the proclamation came about.
A proclamation has been written for this day and it's to be read during any choral concert happening on this day. According to the IFCM website, it's been translated into eight different languages.
Here's the proclamation:
Sing Choirs of the World!
May your voices take springs there where fire burns.
May your songs put roses there where battlefields lay.
Open furrow and sow love to harvest fruits of hope.
Sing to liberty where despot is,
Sing to equality where poverty nests,
Sing to brotherhood where hate prevails.
May your singing direct the world so that peace takes over wars, so that men cherishes earth, so that all race or color discrimination is banished so that we will be fraternal so that this planet rejoices with your voices.
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