‘Peace at Potsdam’ is a concert and play about the 1945 Potsdam conference, where three world leaders met to create peace after WWII. Music helped bridge their differences.
In the summer of 1945, Allied leaders President Harry S. Truman, Britain’s Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin convened in Potsdam, Germany, to discuss peace after World War II.
The 17-day conference was, at times, contentious, but music became a unifier.
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Virginia Arts Festival will perform “Finding Peace at Potsdam” on Friday and Saturday in Norfolk and Newport News.
