Op/Ed
Ways of Seeing: Stand up to power, don’t kneel
May 15, 2025
It is the big Christmas concert at my junior high school. A young soloist with a piano accompaniment is just finishing the first verse of “O Holy Night,” her sweet voice soaring. Suddenly, massed choruses and the orchestra with deeply resonating tympanies burst forth with the chorus: “Fall on your knees!”
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