RESILIENCE: Music for Troubled Times by Aoollo's Fire
London, 1665: A year-long plague held the city in its grip, but haunting folk ballads
and laments of Dowland and Purcell wafted from the windows of empty streets.
Two centuries later, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery could not prevent Americans – black and white – from singing in joyous harmony at the end of the Civil War.