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Article: IN-FLIGHT JOURNAL - DAY 26: A flight of song.(The Home Forum)(Small Plane - Big Planet)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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It was not the sound one associates with airline terminals. Not the garbled announcements. Not the annoying pop music indistinguishable from country to country. Instead, it was the sound of people singing - beautiful, lyrical music in voices untrained but earnest and in harmony. It came from a group of perhaps 15 people - men, women, and a few teenagers - sitting in the waiting area of Kangerlussuaq Airport. Most were Inuit - Greenlander natives. A few were of European descent. All were singing in Greenlandic, an Inuit dialect.
I sat down and listened, as did other travelers waiting for their flights.
There was a soulful, loving sense to the songs. One ...