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We are very sad to hear this news.<div><br></div><div>In support,</div><div>Isobel Bishop.<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 21/07/2012, at 5:08 AM, David M Dunn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">12 people were killed and 60-some wounded in a theater in Aurora early this morning—the movie theater Burna and I attend regularly, about 10 minutes from our home. Our friend Alexey in Moscow called just a hour ago to say that he had already seen photos from the scene on the news in Moscow.<div><br></div><div>It's taken me all morning to become conscious of vicarious trauma. I had an over-full to-do list this morning, but I sought refuge in music, not the tasks in front of me. Instead of getting down to work, I searched for songs from "Kristina from Duvemåla"—a musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson—on YouTube.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a link to Helen Sjöholm singing <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed">"You Have To Be There"</span> <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed">(with English subtitles)…</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk76_iqw-Pc&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk76_iqw-Pc&feature=related</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>…the music from "Kristina" that kept my mind from sinking into the muck and the day from devolving into oblivion.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ps. The Wikipedia article about this glorious musical begins:</div><div>[Kristina from Duvemåla] premiered at the Malmö Opera and Music Theatre in Malmö, Sweden, on October 7, 1995 and received a rapturous welcome. The audience gave it a 10-minute standing ovation [and] the critics unanimously praised it…</div><div><br></div><div>On October 12, 1996, the 90-minute (of nearly four-hour score) concert version with the original cast was presented, in Swedish, in Minneapolis, Minnesota as an opening event of the Plymouth Music Series 1996-1997 season in Orchestra Hall; and next day in Chisago Lakes High School in Lindstrom, Minnesota – the area where much of the events in Moberg's books took place…<br><br>The American premiere received a glowing review from Minneapolis Star and Tribune : "I have seen the future of the music theater, and its name is Kristina...Engaging, emotionally charged – and at times haunting – piece of work capable of enchanting US viewers even when performed in a cut-down, concert version and in a tongue foreign to the audience"; while Helen Sjöholm who performed the role of Kristina was described as "extraordinary".</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>Synopsis of "Kristina from Duvemåla"<br></b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Act I</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">A young girl, Kristina, sits on her swing and dreams about her beau Karl Oskar. He is on his way to see her,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and she pictures how he makes his way through the familiar surroundings ("Duvemåla Pasture"). When Karl</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Oskar arrives he tells her that he has inherited his father's farm, and can now make Kristina his wife. The</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">two are wed and begin a life together, but times are hard as they keep getting bad harvest years. Kristina</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">worries that they won't be able to support their growing family, and suggests to her husband that they don't</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">have intercourse, in order to prevent another pregnancy. Karl Oskar talks her out of it, saying that it would</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">be a betrayal of his lust and love for her ("My Lust for You").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Karl Oskar's brother, Robert, is on his way to begin working as a farm hand on a nearby farm. He stops by a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">stream and wishes he was as free as the water ("Out Towards a Sea").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Kristina is pregnant again, and both she and Karl Oskar worry that they won't be able to feed their little ones</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">during winter. There is a drought, and the harvest is bad. In a fit of rage Karl Oskar tells God that since he</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">took their hay last year, he might as well take the rest. Shortly thereafter lightning strikes the barn and what</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">little hay they had goes up in flames. Kristina, who is very religious, tells her husband that he got what he</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">wished for ("Bad Harvest"). Robert returns home, having been beaten by his master. He refuses to go back,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">instead he wants his share of the inheritance. He plans to leave Sweden and travel to North America. Karl</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Oskar confesses that he has been considering the same thing. Kristina is horrified. Karl Oskar and Robert</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">try to convince her that she will love life in America, but she is too afraid. She prays to God that he will not</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">force her to go out on the sea and risk the lives of her children ("No").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Meanwhile Kristina's uncle Danjel is having a gathering in his house. Danjel believes that God has chosen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">him to lead the people away from the wrong teachings of the church, and he has gathered a group of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">outcasts to celebrate communion ("Little Group"). However the gathering is disrupted by the provost and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">the local authorities, who scatter the group and threaten Danjel. One of the guests is Ulrika of Västergöhl, a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">former prostitute who is now on the straight and narrow. She is furious over the hypocrisy of the provost;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">one of his men used to be her customer. She vows that her daughter Elin will never have to suffer because</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">her mother was a whore ("Never").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Kristina, and Karl Oskar's parents, try to convince him that it is foolish to move. They would never be able</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">to return and would never get to see family and friends again. They wouldn't speak the language and would</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">end up completely isolated. But when Kristina makes christening porridge for the new baby, their starving</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">oldest daughter (Anna) eats it all and dies as a result. Realising that the poverty in Sweden is just as</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">dangerous as anything on the sea, Kristina agrees to move ("Come To Me Everyone"). They visit the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">provost and write down their reasons for emigrating in the church book. The provost tries to convince them</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">to stay by telling them of all the horrors waiting in America, and by saying that God will wipe America off</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">the face of the earth within fifty years. The emigrants don't care however, and begin their journey ("We</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Open Every Gate"). Karl Oskar, Kristina, their children and Robert have gained some companions on their</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">journey. Danjel and his family are moving to escape the religious persecution. Ulrika and her daughter is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">moving with them, and so is Arvid, a friend of Robert's.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The ship turns out to be smaller than they had thought it would be. There is no room for Karl Oskar in the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">family area and he must bunk with the bachelors. For the first time in their marriage, Kristina and Karl</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Oskar are separated ("Farmers At Sea"). One day Kristina discovers lice on her body. She is horrified, since</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">she believes lice to be a sign of poor hygiene, and she has never had them before in her life. She blames</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ulrika, who does not have a louse on her. The two have a heated argument while an old woman, Fina-Kajsa,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">tries to calm them by telling the story of how lice came to be ("Lice"). One night in the middle of a storm</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Karl Oskar is woken up by his oldest son, Johan, who tells him that Ma is bleeding. Kristina, pregnant with</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">her fifth child, has fallen ill to scurvy. The captain does what he can to help her, and Karl Oskar sits by her</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">side, waking through the longest night of his life ("Stay"). When morning comes Kristina is alive, but</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Danjel's wife is not ("Burial at Sea").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">On Midsummer's Eve land is finally spotted. The emigrants set foot on American soil for the first time. The</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">sight of all the New Yorkers out for a Sunday walk overwhelms them, as does the foreign language ("A</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sunday in Battery Park"). Kristina sits and rests in Battery Park and longs for when she can finally have a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">place to call home again ("Home"). The group travel by train and then by steamboat, amazed at how wide</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">America is ("From New York to Stillwater"). They arrive in Stillwater one rainy night and are taken in by</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">the Baptist priest Henry Jackson. The women are amazed by how he handles household chores, and begin to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">understand that women are more equal to men in this new country. The immigrants struggle with the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">language barrier as they try to communicate with Reverend Jackson ("To Think That Men Like Him Can</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Exist").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Finally the immigrants become settlers, as they begin to build their homes. Kristina opens the chest with</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">their belongings and gets a feeling of home ("Camphor and Lavender"). Robert is not content with living at</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">his brother's new farm though. He tells his friend Arvid of his plans to go on the California trail and look for</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">gold. Karl Oskar is highly skeptical, but his brother is firmly set on leaving ("the Dream of Gold"). Kristina</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">gives birth to a healthy baby boy, and as she holds him in her arms she tells him about the land where she</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">was born, and of her astrakan apple tree which is still carrying fruit ("My Astrakan").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Act II</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">A few years have passed by. The settlers have begun to build a new life and a new civilisation by Chisago</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Lake. They gather and celebrate their choice to move to this New World ("the Superiors"). But Kristina</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">doesn't cheer with them. She lies awake at night, tormented by her longing for Sweden, and begs God to let</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">her return. Karl Oskar wakes up, and tells her that if God tries to move her back he will reach out his hand</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and keep her by his side. He shows her the boot that belonged to Anna and reminds her of why they left. He</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">also tells her that he plans to write her father and ask for some seeds from her astrakan tree back home.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Hopefully a new tree planted at their new settlement (named New Duvemåla after the farm she grew up on)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">will help her feel more at home ("Bright Evenings in Springtime").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">When Christmas comes Karl Oskar has bought Kristina a new stove, called the Queen of the Prairie. Their</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">friends gather at New Duvemåla to celebrate Christmas, and they all marvel at the new stove ("the Queen of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">the Prairie"). The fun gathering is disrupted when Karl Oskar gets into a fight with Nöjd, a fur hunter. Nöjd</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">tells Karl Oskar that he doesn't own the land he farms, and informs him of the crimes committed against the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Indians. Karl Oskar defends himself by stating his plight back home in Sweden, and by telling Nöjd just</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">how hard he has worked to turn the wild grass on his property into a home and a farm ("Wild Grass").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">One day Robert returns. Arvid is not with him, but he has a lot of money. Karl Oskar takes the money to the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">bank in Stillwater, and while he is away Robert and Kristina talk. Robert tells her how he has come to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">accept his fate and bow to it ("I Have Resigned At Last"). Kristina finds a watch which belonged to Arvid</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and demands to know where Arvid is. Robert tells her the story of how they went searching for gold, but</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">ended up lost in the desert. Arvid drank poisoned water and died, the watch slipping from his hand ("the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Gold Turned Into Sand"). A furious Karl Oskar returns, informing Kristina that what Robert brought home</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">was Wild Cat money. Wild Cat money is fake money, and Karl Oskar believes that his brother knew all</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">along. He doesn't see that Robert has been tricked, and sick of his brother's lies and exaggerations he hits</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">him in the face ("Wild Cat Money"). Robert leaves and walks out to the woods where he finds a lonely</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">stream. He brought home the yellow fever along with the money, and by the stream he succumbs to it and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">dies ("Out Towards a Sea (Reprise)").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Back in Sweden Ulrika was a whore and no respectable man would look at her twice. Now she is a coveted</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">maiden, and has several suitors ("Won't You Marry Me?"). She accepts a marriage proposal from Reverend</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Jackson and tells Kristina she is converting to Baptism. The two women marvel at how they have gone from</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">enemies to the best of friends, and Kristina wishes her friend many years of blissful marriage ("A Miracle of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">the Lord"). She comes to watch her friend being baptised ("Down to the Sacred Wave").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Kristina suffers a miscarriage which is a hard blow on her already fragile health. Ulrika takes her to the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">doctor, and then brings Karl Oskar the bad news. After all the children Kristina has birthed, and after her</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">miscarriage, her body is broken and can't handle much more. The next childbirth will mean her death</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">("Miscarriage"). A devastated Kristina is alone under the stars. She thinks of all the bad things that have</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">happened to her, having to leave her home, losing her child and now losing her husband as well. It is as if</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">God didn't exist. She desperately begs to God, not knowing what she will do if he isn't real ("You Must</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Exist").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">As time passes, Kristina begins to feel better ("Harvest Feast"). She longs for her husband and one night</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">makes up her mind. She tries to convince Karl Oskar that it is God's meaning that husband and wife should</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">be together, and that if God wants her to live she will live, but if He wants her to die He will take her</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">regardless. Karl Oskar resists her, until she repeats the words he said to her so many years ago ("Here You</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Have Me Again").</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">During the civil war, the state of Minnesota gets a civil war of its own, an Indian uprising. Chaos, murder</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and violence begins to spread as Kristina finds out that she is once again with child. She tells Karl Oskar</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and wants him not to worry, but he is very concerned. She turns to God and asks for help to comfort him,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(146, 146, 146); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">since she is so weak and tired herself ("Red Iron/Help Me Comfort"). The settlers begin to flee their homes</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">as the uprising spreads ("Where Do We Belong?"). Karl Oskar sends the children away, but cannot leave</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">himself. Kristina has miscarried again, and lies dying in her bed. He sits vigil by her side and picks the first</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">apple off her astrakan tree. On the third day she once again recognises him, and takes the apple in her hand.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">She tells him not to worry, and that she will be waiting for him at Duvemåla Pasture, like she once used to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">do. Weakly she takes a bite, but dies before she can swallow it. Karl Oskar holds her in his arms and weeps</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">("In Good Keeping").</div></div> </div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David Dunn<br>740 S Alton Way 9B<br>Denver, CO 80247<br>--<br><a href="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com">dmdunn1@gmail.com</a><br>720-314-5991<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OE mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>