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During
its fourth trip to Europe and the USSR during the summer of 1962, the YRC
was in Berlin in August to sing a formal concert. A young East German,
Peter Fechter, was shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall. East German guards
would not allow him any medical attention and he died of his wounds where
he fell after several hours of agony in the sight of all. The Chorus sang
Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus at the Wall as a memorial to Fechter a few days
after the incident. |
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