Esta es la historia de un hombre y de una canción.
"On
July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger
and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they
failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their
attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger
testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of
Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety
were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was
stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the
Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert
in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American
actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les
fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany
just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be
peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary,
the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a
profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect
today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it"
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