Facing History Student Composes Music Inspired By Wiesel’s Book, Night

Fourteen-year-old New Haven Academy musician Taylor Goodwin brought the Board of Ed to its feet with a mournful and moving composition evoking the silent horror of Jews marching slowly to the gas chambers in the holocaust of World War Two.

Goodwin, who was accompanied by his father Steve on the guitar, is not Jewish himself. He was moved to write and perform his work by the teaching he received of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and the "Facing History and Ourselves" curriculum at his school.

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