Article: Concerts will showcase a dozen new songs of peace.(Entertainment)

Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard

Robert Kyr's strong words resonate like a call to arms.

"It is time to wage peace - not war," says Kyr, the professor who heads the composition department at the University of Oregon School of Music and runs the Oregon Bach Festival's Composer Symposium.

"The waging of peace is a dynamic process in which music has a crucial role to play. By performing and hearing music from around the world, we are taking an active part in promoting cultural understanding - and, ultimately, peace - between the diverse peoples of humankind."

With armed conflicts and terrorist activities breaking out everywhere, ...

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