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Mark O'Connor
Founded in the wake of September 11, 2001, Musicians for Harmony presents a memorial concert in New York City every year to help "foster and advance the cause of peace through music." Tonight we hear one of the highlights of last year's program, the premiere performance of violinist/composer Mark O'Connor's "Harmony."
On the Transmigration of Souls
Also tonight, we hear John Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning "On the Transmigration of Souls," commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to mark the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Incorporating the words of those left behind (from posters hung around ground zero), Adams creates what he calls a "memory space... where ...
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