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2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the horrendous terrorist attacks that changed America and the world forever. Celebrations in remembrance of the innocent victims, the heroic first-responders, and their families take place in cities across the US and around the world, with New York City naturally taking center stage. Concert halls will resound with music that recalls yet at the same time transcends the unspeakable violence of the tragedy and the unimaginable pain it caused, bringing to fore the HEALING POWER OF MUSIC. Among the major highlights of the musical celebration are: the NEW
YORK PHILHARMONIC's performance of Mahler's SYMPHONY No. 2 or
"Resurrection" at Avery Fisher Hall with Alan Gilbert
conducting, which will be broadcast live on Classical WQXR
105.9 FM and rebroadcast on PBS' Great Performances on September 11
as well as internationally; and "GLOBAL SING FOR PEACE"--a
memorial concert to be held on September 11 at Lincoln Center's Avery
Fisher Hall. It features the full orchestra version of The
Armed Man: A Mass for Peace and the world premiere of
For The Fallen, two powerful works by Karl
Jenkins, one of the world's most popular and respected living
composers. Jenkins will conduct the performance of his works. The concert
will also feature a piece by composer and conductor René
Clausen entitled Memorial, which
was composed specifically to honor the victims of 9/11. The event is
called "GLOBAL SING FOR PEACE" for a reason: choruses
around the world will participate in the event by performing either
The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace or Memorial
in part or in their entirety during the month of September 2011. VIEW
A LIST of Global Sing for Peace participants, current to
August 31, 2011 Below is a listing of the events commemorating 9/11 through classical music that will take place in New York City, Washington DC, and other cities in the US and around the world throughout the month of September 2011, some of which will be broadcast live or streamed as a live webcast.
NEW YORK CITY: Sept. 9 at 7 p.m ‘MUSIC OF REFLECTION AND RESILIENCE: THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE’ The choir makes its first public performance under the direction of Kent Tritle in works of solace, renewal and hope by Bach, Mendelssohn, Tallis and Chris DeBlasio. The concert will be broadcast live on 105.9, WQXR-FM, and will stream as a live video Webcast at wqxr.org. The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, 44 Charlton Street, SoHo, (866) 811-4111, wnyc.org/thegreenespace. Sept. 9 throughout the day starting at 11 a.m. TRINITY WALL STREET Choirs from New York, Washington, Boston and Pennsylvania — including the Trinity Wall Street Choir, NYC Master Chorale, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Washington Chorus, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Copley Singers — will alternate performances at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel throughout the day, starting at 11 a.m. At 8:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, the adult choirs will be joined by Novus NY, Trinity Wall Street’s resident contemporary-music orchestra, in Brahms’s “Deutsches Requiem,” featuring the soprano Angela Meade and the bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni. The violinist Gil Shaham, the baritone Dashon Burton and the soprano Jolle Greenleaf will be the soloists in Fauré’s Requiem. The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will perform in Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms.” Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall Street, and St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 602-0800. The concert is part of a week of free concerts. Check Web site for details: trinitywallstreet.org/911. Sept. 10 at 1:30 p.m. ART SONG PRESERVATION SOCIETY “American Art Songs for Hope,” a commemorative program of works by Barber, Ives, Copland and Berlin, presented with the September Concert Foundation. Leiderkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, Manhattan, artsongpreservationsocietyny.org; free. Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. MAHLER's RESURRECTION NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC music director, Alan Gilbert, conducts Mahler’s “Resurrection,” featuring the soprano Dorothea Röschmann, the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and the New York Choral Artists. Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-3500, lincolncenter.org. FREE on first-come, first-served basis. The concert will be broadcast live on 105.9, WQXR-FM; on 93.9, WNYC-FM on Sept. 11 at 8 p.m.; and on PBS on Sept. 11 at 9 p.m.; check local listings. Sept. 11 at 1:30 p.m. ‘SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL CONCERT’ The Sherman Chamber Ensemble plays elegies by Fauré and Rachmaninoff, as well as Smetana’s Trio in G minor (Op. 15). Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, Grand Army Plaza, Fort Greene, (718) 230-2100, brooklynpubliclibrary.org; free. Sept. 11 at 2:00 p.m. GLOBAL SING FOR PEACE Composer Karl Jenkins hosts a concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Jenkins, one of the world's most popular living composers, will conduct his powerful work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace along with the U.S. premiere of his recent work For The Fallen. The concert will also feature a piece by composer and conductor René Clausen entitled Memorial, which was composed specifically for the victims of 9/11. Over 600 musicians particpate in the concert, to be held at Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall. . Other choirs across the US and other countries are also participating in the event by holding concerts of their own. VIEW A LIST of Global Sing for Peace participants, current to August 31, 2011 Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. ELAD KABILIO The cellist presents “In Memoriam,” a program of solo works including Bach’s Suites No. 2 and 3 and John Corigliano’s “Fancy on a Bach Air.” Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, (212) 685-0008, themorgan.org. Sept. 11 at 3:30 p.m. WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA The premiere of the live orchestration of William Basinski’s ambient “Disintegration Loop 1.1,” created in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the weeks before and after the destruction of the World Trade Center; also, works by Osvaldo Golijov, Ingram Marshall and Alfred Schnittke. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Temple of Dendur, (212) 570-3949, metmuseum.org. Streamed live on wqxr.org and npr.org/music. Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. MUSICIANS FOR HARMONY “Concert for Peace,” a commemorative performance featuring the Juilliard String Quartet; the clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with City Band; the shakuhachi performer Kojiro Umezaki; and Bassam Saba and the New Arabic Orchestra. Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, (212) 501-3330, kaufman-center.org, musicians4harmony.org/fall11concert.html. Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY John Daly Goodwin, in his final season as music director, conducts the ensemble in excerpts from Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Harry Belafonte’s “Turn the World Around” in an event sponsored by the September Concert Foundation. At 7 p.m., St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Fifth Avenue at 50th Street, (212) 247-3878, nychoral.org. Sept. 20 Nonesuch Records releases ‘WTC 9/11’ The recording of a new work by Steve Reich, performed by Kronos Quartet. Sept. 21-24 KRONOS QUARTET The group performs “Awakening,” described as a musical meditation on 9/11 featuring 12 pieces from 11 countries, including excerpts from The Sad Park, a string quartet written by composer MICHAEL GORDON as a personal commemoration of Sept. 11, 2001. With the Brooklyn Youth Chorus; part of the Next Wave Festival. Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651 Fulton Street, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, bam.org.
WASHINGTON, DC AREA: Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. 9/11, 10 YEARS LATER: AN EVENING OF REMEMBRANCE AND REFLECTION. The Kennedy Center and the New Republic present an event hosted by Christiane Amanpour and featuring Wynton Marsalis, Emmylou Harris, Denyce Graves and the National Symphony Orchestra, with speakers Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and others. Kennedy Center Concert Hall, by invitation only for those affected directly by the 9/11 attacks. Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. “BRAHMS' REQUIEM,” Washington National Cathedral (with the Pentagon Memorial Fund), Free; tickets required (202-537-2300). Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. A CONCERT TO HEAL
Local artists perform in and around the Washington National Cathedral.
Free. Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. IN SEARCH OF PEACH: A CONCERT OF REMEMBRANCE AND HOPE. Choralis’s concert includes a world premiere by local composer Gary Davison. National Presbyterian Church, Free for families affected by the Pentagon attack. Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. PEACE CONCERT. The Washington Korean Symphony Orchestra presents the 10th iteration of this memorial concert. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, $50. Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. THE WORLD DOCTOR ORCHESTRA: A REMEMBRANCE OF 9/11 Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony, Mozart’s 5th Violin Concerto and Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” at Strathmore. $25-$75. Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11. The University of Maryland Orchestra and Chorus perform Mozart’s Requiem. Clarice Smith Center, Free; tickets required (301-405-2787).
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 3:00-5:00pm Massachusetts Remembers
9/11 / Memorial Concert and Ceremony. Free to the Public
Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. STARS OF LYRIC OPERA AT MILLENNIUM PARK The Lyric Opera of Chicago honors the victims of 9/11, their families and the members of the armed services at this annual outdoor concert, with arias by Bellini, Delibes, Donizetti, Gounod, Massenet, Offenbach and Puccini. Renée Fleming, the opera’s creative consultant, headlines a roster including René Barbera, Jamie Barton, Anna Christy, Emily Fons, James Morris, Susanna Phillips, Matthew Polenzani and Ljubomir Puskaric. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago, (312) 332-2244, Ext. 5600, lyricopera.org; free.
HOUSTON, TX: Sept. 9-12 PIECES OF 9/11, MEMORIES FROM HOUSTON Houston Grand Opera presents the premiere of this song cycle from the composer Jake Heggie and the librettist Gene Scheer, commissioned as part of the company’s Song of Houston project. Drawing on stories of Houstonians who were affected by Sept. 11, the works are intended not only to honor those who lost their lives that day, but also to pay tribute to rescue teams and community members — among them, the Houston Fire Department and Texas Task Force One, which sent 88 members to ground zero. At locations around Houston, including the Rothko Chapel and the City Hall Reflection Pond. (713) 228-6737, houstongrandopera.org; free.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA Sept. 10-30 HEART OF A SOLDIER - a San Francisco Opera commission. Renowned American baritone Thomas Hampson sings the lead in the premiere of Heart of a Soldier, by Christopher Tehofanidis with a libretto by Donna Di Novelli, based on James B. Stewart’s book. Patrick Summers conducts, with Francesco Zambello directing. War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, (415) 864-3330, sfwmpac.org. Community events ancillary to Heart of a Soldier, take place at various city venues.
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