Boston musicians remember civilians killed in Iraq

[Robbien]

BOSTON This Memorial Day, some people in Boston are remembering civilians as well as soldiers killed in warfare.

A group of 70 musicians played a piece in which each note represents a civilian killed in Iraq. Each high note symbolizes a child, each medium note is a woman and low notes represent an Iraqi man who was killed.

The group set out to play between 21- and 25-thousand notes, to correspond with death estimates from the Web site iraq-body-count-dot-com.

The composer says the idea is to look at humanity as a whole and that he thinks it's very appropriate for Memorial Day.

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3408399

[MasonJar]

1. What a special tribute, but they better add about 100,000 more.