Feeling heartbroken by the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, Vi Hilbert, an 83-year-old elder from the Upper Skagit | dG1fYUZmbWtQd0Fic0E
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00:00Also, would you make everyone aware that we're going to be seeing some faces?
00:08I was crying spiritually, I was crying physically.
00:12I turned to the Spirit and I asked the Spirit over and over again what one person could
00:19do to heal a sick world.
00:21The Spirit came back with an answer.
00:24Music is the one language that can be understood around the world.
00:29This is the story of how a diminutive great-grandmother tenaciously gathered support from unlikely
00:35corners for her most ambitious project yet, to heal the heart of the world.
00:42She is one of the most extraordinary people I've ever seen because what she thinks and
00:47what she cares about, what she believes in, is what we all should believe in, what we
00:50should all care about.
00:51Wars have been going on for thousands and thousands of years, do I think that music
00:56can change that?
00:58Uh-huh, uh-huh.
00:59Yes, it was about the music, but it was about Vi, it was about the ambience, it was about
01:05the audience.
01:07She's a presence, she's an inspiration.
01:09It's a spiritual gift from my people.
01:12It comes in the form of symphony.
01:14That's the reason the symphony was created actually, but to put part of the spiritual
01:21power that's in the concert that I'm a part of, let that spread out through music.
01:27Thanks to Seattle Symphony, I think it will do its job.