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September 11th
"Manhattan Remembers"
Sunrise Vigil for Lower Manhattan community
Manhattan Borough President
C. Virginia Fields and Council Member
Alan J. Gerson
Service begins promptly at 5:30 a.m.
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park - Esplanade Plaza
Enter on West Street and Battery Place
R.S.V.P. (212) 669-4460
"Chanting and Remembrance"
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Lighthouse
Hill, 2-5 p.m. Monks of the Staten Island Buddhist Vihara honor those
lost.
Jewish Group ceremony - with Shimon Peres
Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67th Street (west
of Third Avenue) Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and Ohel Children's
Home and Family Services, together with Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, UJA-Federation of New York and Hatzolah
Volunteer Ambulance Corps., with the support of Project Liberty, will
sponsor a community-wide remembrance on the first anniversary of the terrorist
attacks on the United States. Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister of Israel
and former Prime Minister will address the gathering. Also, Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver and Council Speaker Gifford Miller will be there.
Staten Island Interfaith Service of Remembrance
Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George,
7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Borough Hall, the service pays tribute to the Staten
Island victims of the World Trade Center attacks Call Joanne Nuzzo at
Borough Hall at (718) 816-2133 for details
Concert for Freedom
9am
Flushing Town Hall, Queens
The American Concert Band presents a concert of traditional American music
in a garden adjacent to the historic Flushing Town Hall in Queens. Free
Admission.
Music of Remembrance and Voices of Inspiration
10am-4pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Sculpture Hall
The Met Museum offers a daylong series of free special programs collectively
titled"Music of Remembrance," (listed below), in the Medieval Sculpture
Hall; and "Voices of Inspiration," selected readings appropriate to
the date, at 10am and 4pm in The Charles Engelhard Court.
11am: Judith Serkin, cello, and friends: works for four cellos
12pm: Parthenia, A Consort of Viols
1pm: Stephanie Chase, violin: Bach violin sonatas
2pm: Paula Robison, flute
3pm: Edward Arron, cello, and friends: Schubert Quintet in C major
Free with Museum admission.
Community Sing - Mozart Requiem
1pm
Juilliard Theater, The Juilliard School
The Juilliard School offers two free events, beginning with a Mozart Requiem
community sing-along in the Juilliard Theater at 1pm. Judith Clurman conducts
the Juilliard Choral Union and the Juilliard Orchestra, with soloists
Anja Strauss, Deborah Domanski, Michael Slattery, and Matthew Burns. The
Choral Union, which embarks on its third season in September, is a symphonic
chorus of about 100 singers from the metropolitan area who audition and
enroll through the Juilliard Evening Division. No tickets required, though
participants are urged to bring their own score.
“Spring Will Come Again”
6pm
Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center
A collaborative concert between the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center
titled “Spring Will Come Again” features faculty members Steven Blier
and Ted Altschuler, as well as Juilliard students and alumni. The songs
of Bernstein, Bolcom, Corigliano, Lennon and McCartney, Musto, and Rorem
will be featured, along with readings from Shakespeare, Patchen, Plath,
Munro, O' Hara, and others. Free Tickets available on a first come, first
serve basis at the Juilliard Box Office starting on Aug. 28.
Mozart Requiem
6:30pm
Church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal)
316 E. 88th St.
Holy Trinity Choir and Soloists, Stephen Hamilton, conductor. With soprano Danielle
Daverio-Noack, mezzo Andrea Abushady, tenor David Steinberger, and basses John Schenkel
and Richard Womack. Free Admission.
Fauré Requiem
7:30pm
St. Francis of Assisi Church
135 West 31st St.
St. Francis Choir & Orchestra. Gwendolyn Toth, conductor. An 85-member chorus comprised of several
choirs from around New York City, plus and orchestra featuring several members from the early music
ensemble ARTEK will perform Fauré’s Requiem. Free Admission.
“An Evening of Memorial and Renewal”
8pm
92nd Street Y
The 92nd St. Y features an evening of readings, music and dance. Writers
and poets will read selections from 110 Stories: New York Writes After
September 11 (New York University Press), an anthology of stories, poems
and essays being released the day of the program. In addition, baritone
Sanford Sylvan sings Bach’s “Ich habe genug” and the period-instrument
Sarasa Ensemble presents a Bach work for harpsichord and strings. Featuring
Paul Auster, Vivian Gornick, John Guare, Grace Schulman, Art Spiegelman,
Susan Wheeler and Sanford Sylvan. Tickets are available by calling the
Y at 212-415-5500.
Thanks to Fred
Froehlich for the use of his photos.
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