September 11th Anniversary Coverage
Music | Jul 12, 2010
WNYC's marked the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks with special programming and coverage of the ceremony at the World Trade Center. Listen to archived coverage on WNYC.org.
AM 820
8:30am A live broadcast of the 9/11 Anniversary Ceremony at Ground Zero. Hosted by Amy Eddings and Richard Hake
8:46am, 9:03am, 9:59am and 10:20am moments of silence marking when the towers were struck and when they fell
WNYC programming | NYC Musical & Cultural Events | Related Links
WNYC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The Brian Lehrer Show
Friday, September 10 at 10AM on 93.9 FM and AM 820
Brian Lehrer talks with Award-winning news journalist Bill Moyers about the hurt and healing since the September 11th attacks three years ago.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Friday, September 10 at Noon on 93.9 FM and AM 820
At noon, we’ll start of with a panel including Mary Morris, Phillip Lopate, and Art Spiegelman on the role of art in covering tragic events and allowing for healing. Then Paul Goldberger, New Yorker architecture critic, on politics, architecture, and the rebuilding of New York (his book: Up From Zero)
Soundcheck
Friday, September 10 at 2PM on 93.9 FM
On September 10, WNYC'c cultural producer Judith Kampfner introduces us to a new audiowalking tour of Ground Zero, narrated by Paul Auster, which commemorates the life and history of the World Trade Center and the surrounding neighborhood. Featuring music originally performed as part of New Sounds Live concerts in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, the tour offers listeners an illuminating audio tapestry of Ground Zero.
» More on the Sonic Memorial Soundwalk
Overnight Music
Saturday, September 11 at Midnight on 93.9 FM
For Overnight Music on 9/11, we'll be marking the anniversary with “On the Transmigration of Souls” by John Adams at the stroke of midnight, a piece commissioned “in honor of the heroes and in memory of the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001.” This newly released Nonesuch recording features Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic, the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Diane Berkun, director.
Witnesses to Terror: The 9/11 Hearings
Saturday, September 11 at Noon on 93.9 FM
To mark the third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, this compelling program is produced by Catherine Winter and
brings together the most dramatic and important moments from the 9/11 Commission hearings into one program.
The No Show
Saturday, September 11 at 4PM on 93.9 FM
Steve Post, host of The NO SHOW, reflects on the events of three years ago and plays music to aid your reflections.
Evening Music
Saturday, September 11 at 7PM on 93.9 FM
The centerpiece for this special program commemorating the events of three years ago will be Brahms’s “A German Requiem” with Robert Shaw conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Utah Symphony. The show will end with a meditative note as we bring you Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres,” with violinist Gil Shaham, percussionist Roger Carlsson, and Neeme Järvi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony.
New Sounds
Saturday, September 11 at 11PM on 93.9 FM
Laurie Anderson's Live in New York was recorded a mere week after September 11, 2001, and the air of intensity is palpable throughout the two-disc set. Recorded at Town Hall, it includes ten songs from the 2001 CD Life on a String (Nonesuch), plus arrangements of earlier songs from her catalog, including "Let X=X," "Strange Angels," "Coolsville," and the early-1980s classic "O Superman." The latter tune, clothed in a new arrangement, sounds just as poignant as it did 20 years ago, if only because the 90 minutes leading up to it are filled with some of her most dreamlike, unnerving, and yet utterly human music. Selections from this monumental endeavor are the subject of this episode of New Sounds.
» Back to top
MUSICAL & CULTURAL EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
3rd annual Music for Ground Zero
Thursday, September 9 at 7pm
The concert takes place right across from Ground Zero
Tribeca Rock Club
For more information:
» Tribeca Rock Club
Free Concert of Remembrance
Saturday, September 11 at 3pm
Dahesh Museum of Art (212)759-0606
Turkish pianist Burçin Büke plays program of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, and Gershwin
Musicians for Harmony
Monday, Sept. 13 7:30 PM
Merkin Concert hall
3rd Annual Concert for Peace Featuring the Shanghai Quartet, Iraqi pianist Hassan al-Mufti, members of the Guarneri Quartet with Russian pianist Anna Polonsky, the Gerard Edery Ensemble, and “Musique sans Frontieres.”
September Concert
Saturday September 11, 2004
All over NYC
Promotes and produces almost 50 concerts large and small throughout the city (and other cities this year as well) that foster humanity and strength through music. The concerts are all free and feature (and welcome) all kinds of music -from hip hop and pop/rock to classical and world music, organized and played by professionals and amateurs, regardless of age, race, musical genre or background.
Duets for Three Singers
Saturday, September 11th 2004 7:00 and 9:30PM
Joe's Pub
John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor and band
Old friends renew their acquaintance on stage at Joe's Pub. Each performer will sing a set on their own, not to mention the duets and trios - all three performers will be accompanied by Kelly Hogan's touring band.
DANCE
Evening Stars outdoor dance festival
9/9-9/12.
Battery Park
Performances from Paul Taylor Dance Company, Limón Dance, Buglisi/Foreman, and many more
33 Fainting Spells
Our Little Sunbeam
Sept. 11 at 7:30pm
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
Closing night performance of “Our Little Sunbeam,” a seamless and witty mix of theater and movement, drawing inspiration from Chekhov, this time from the internal despair of “Ivanov,” one of the writer's earliest plays.
THEATER
Roman Paska
Dead Pupet Talk
September 9-11 (Thurs-Sat) 8PM $20
September 14-18 (Tues-Sat) 8PM $20
The Kitchen 512 West 19 th Street (212) 255-5793 x 11
Dead Puppet Talk conjures a hypnotic world where puppet performers silently act out scenes from a “play within the play” as actors wryly speculate on the puppet's raison d'être . Developed at the 2004 Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak and described as a "talking opera," it features the director's signature blend of elegant puppets inspired by anatomical dolls and artists' mannequins, film interludes, and a sampling of electroacoustic music mixed live at each performance.
Karen Finley
George and Martha
September 10 - October 30, Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm
Collective: Unconscious at 279 Church Street
This broad two-character political satire combines the real-life antics of George Dubya and Martha Stewart with Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? duo (and a touch of George and Martha Washington). George & Martha uses dark humor to explore the collision of politics, power, and fame.
For reservations and information call 212-352-0255 or visit www.TheaterMania.com .
York Theatre Company
The Musical of Musicals the Musical!
Saturday, September 11 th , 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Citigroup Center
The plucky York Theatre Company's twice-extended Off-Broadway hit will defiantly play in “the safest theater in town,” i.e., the site of a recent terror threat, the Citigroup Cente r . Much like that building's nine-to-five tenants, the theater has remained open for business with its charming, critically acclaimed show.
OTHER
John Adams
On the Transmigration of Souls
Nonesuch Records releases John Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning composition On the Transmigration of Souls on August 31, 2004. The work, which was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center's Great Performers, honors the heroes, victims, and survivors of the events of September 11, 2001. Made possible with generous support from a longtime New York family, On the Transmigration of Souls received its world-premiere performances during Philharmonic concerts in September 2002, conducted by Music Director Lorin Maazel with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the New York Choral Artists. The Nonesuch recording was made during that engagement.
For more information, visit www.nonesuch.com or newyorkphilharmonic.org
Philippe Petit
Play Outside Festival of Free Outdoor Theater
Saturday, September 11
Washington Sq. Park
Philippe Petit, the man that crossed the twin towers of the World Trade Center on a tightrope 30 years ago, in a commemorative performance.
World Culture Open
Innaugural 2004 Awards Ceremony
Thursday, September 9th, 2004 8:00 p.m.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center $45
(212) 875-5030 or www.lincolncenter.org
The World Culture Open (WCO), an international non-profit that creates breakthroughs in peace and reconciliation through the celebration of the world's artistic and cultural traditions, presents its inaugural peace prize for arts and culture, which will award $100,000 to three of the twelve international finalists who have used their arts and cultural tradition to promote peace between individuals and societies.
Panel Discussion
Design: Ground Zero
Saturday, September 18
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers Street
$35 ($20 seniors; free for students with valid I.D.) Tickets available at the door Information at the Center for Architecture 212.358.6126
Leonard Lopate, host of “The Leonard Lopate Show” on WNYC radio, will moderate a panel discussion with Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava and Michael Arad, whotogether for the first time in a public forumwill talk about their visions for the World Trade Center site. The panel, entitled “Design: Ground Zero,” is the major public event of the American Institute of Architects’ conference, “Learning from Lower Manhattan.” Call the Center for Architecture at 212.358.6126 with questions – tickets are available at the door (the option for purchasing advanced tickets has expired).
Words and Images in Art in the Post 9/11 Landscape
From the Hip: words and images
September 19th at 3PM
Cooper Union's Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at third Avenue:
Photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Yusef Komunyakaa discuss "words and images in art in the post 9/11 landscape."
Free and open to the public
» Back to top
Related links:
» 2003 Anniversary Ceremony
» 2002 September 11th Anniversary Coverage
» Six Months: Rebuilding our city, rebuilding ourselves
» Back to top
AM 820
8:30am A live broadcast of the 9/11 Anniversary Ceremony at Ground Zero. Hosted by Amy Eddings and Richard Hake
8:46am, 9:03am, 9:59am and 10:20am moments of silence marking when the towers were struck and when they fell
WNYC programming | NYC Musical & Cultural Events | Related Links
WNYC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The Brian Lehrer Show
Friday, September 10 at 10AM on 93.9 FM and AM 820
Brian Lehrer talks with Award-winning news journalist Bill Moyers about the hurt and healing since the September 11th attacks three years ago.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Friday, September 10 at Noon on 93.9 FM and AM 820
At noon, we’ll start of with a panel including Mary Morris, Phillip Lopate, and Art Spiegelman on the role of art in covering tragic events and allowing for healing. Then Paul Goldberger, New Yorker architecture critic, on politics, architecture, and the rebuilding of New York (his book: Up From Zero)
Soundcheck
Friday, September 10 at 2PM on 93.9 FM
On September 10, WNYC'c cultural producer Judith Kampfner introduces us to a new audiowalking tour of Ground Zero, narrated by Paul Auster, which commemorates the life and history of the World Trade Center and the surrounding neighborhood. Featuring music originally performed as part of New Sounds Live concerts in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, the tour offers listeners an illuminating audio tapestry of Ground Zero.
» More on the Sonic Memorial Soundwalk
Saturday, September 11 at Midnight on 93.9 FM
For Overnight Music on 9/11, we'll be marking the anniversary with “On the Transmigration of Souls” by John Adams at the stroke of midnight, a piece commissioned “in honor of the heroes and in memory of the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001.” This newly released Nonesuch recording features Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic, the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Diane Berkun, director.
Witnesses to Terror: The 9/11 Hearings
Saturday, September 11 at Noon on 93.9 FM
To mark the third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, this compelling program is produced by Catherine Winter and
brings together the most dramatic and important moments from the 9/11 Commission hearings into one program.
The No Show
Saturday, September 11 at 4PM on 93.9 FM
Steve Post, host of The NO SHOW, reflects on the events of three years ago and plays music to aid your reflections.
Evening Music
Saturday, September 11 at 7PM on 93.9 FM
The centerpiece for this special program commemorating the events of three years ago will be Brahms’s “A German Requiem” with Robert Shaw conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Utah Symphony. The show will end with a meditative note as we bring you Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres,” with violinist Gil Shaham, percussionist Roger Carlsson, and Neeme Järvi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony.
New Sounds
Saturday, September 11 at 11PM on 93.9 FM
Laurie Anderson's Live in New York was recorded a mere week after September 11, 2001, and the air of intensity is palpable throughout the two-disc set. Recorded at Town Hall, it includes ten songs from the 2001 CD Life on a String (Nonesuch), plus arrangements of earlier songs from her catalog, including "Let X=X," "Strange Angels," "Coolsville," and the early-1980s classic "O Superman." The latter tune, clothed in a new arrangement, sounds just as poignant as it did 20 years ago, if only because the 90 minutes leading up to it are filled with some of her most dreamlike, unnerving, and yet utterly human music. Selections from this monumental endeavor are the subject of this episode of New Sounds.
» Back to top
MUSICAL & CULTURAL EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
3rd annual Music for Ground Zero
Thursday, September 9 at 7pm
The concert takes place right across from Ground Zero
Tribeca Rock Club
For more information:
» Tribeca Rock Club
Free Concert of Remembrance
Saturday, September 11 at 3pm
Dahesh Museum of Art (212)759-0606
Turkish pianist Burçin Büke plays program of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, and Gershwin
Musicians for Harmony
Monday, Sept. 13 7:30 PM
Merkin Concert hall
3rd Annual Concert for Peace Featuring the Shanghai Quartet, Iraqi pianist Hassan al-Mufti, members of the Guarneri Quartet with Russian pianist Anna Polonsky, the Gerard Edery Ensemble, and “Musique sans Frontieres.”
September Concert
Saturday September 11, 2004
All over NYC
Promotes and produces almost 50 concerts large and small throughout the city (and other cities this year as well) that foster humanity and strength through music. The concerts are all free and feature (and welcome) all kinds of music -from hip hop and pop/rock to classical and world music, organized and played by professionals and amateurs, regardless of age, race, musical genre or background.
Duets for Three Singers
Saturday, September 11th 2004 7:00 and 9:30PM
Joe's Pub
John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor and band
Old friends renew their acquaintance on stage at Joe's Pub. Each performer will sing a set on their own, not to mention the duets and trios - all three performers will be accompanied by Kelly Hogan's touring band.
DANCE
Evening Stars outdoor dance festival
9/9-9/12.
Battery Park
Performances from Paul Taylor Dance Company, Limón Dance, Buglisi/Foreman, and many more
33 Fainting Spells
Our Little Sunbeam
Sept. 11 at 7:30pm
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
Closing night performance of “Our Little Sunbeam,” a seamless and witty mix of theater and movement, drawing inspiration from Chekhov, this time from the internal despair of “Ivanov,” one of the writer's earliest plays.
THEATER
Roman Paska
Dead Pupet Talk
September 9-11 (Thurs-Sat) 8PM $20
September 14-18 (Tues-Sat) 8PM $20
The Kitchen 512 West 19 th Street (212) 255-5793 x 11
Dead Puppet Talk conjures a hypnotic world where puppet performers silently act out scenes from a “play within the play” as actors wryly speculate on the puppet's raison d'être . Developed at the 2004 Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak and described as a "talking opera," it features the director's signature blend of elegant puppets inspired by anatomical dolls and artists' mannequins, film interludes, and a sampling of electroacoustic music mixed live at each performance.
Karen Finley
George and Martha
September 10 - October 30, Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm
Collective: Unconscious at 279 Church Street
This broad two-character political satire combines the real-life antics of George Dubya and Martha Stewart with Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? duo (and a touch of George and Martha Washington). George & Martha uses dark humor to explore the collision of politics, power, and fame.
For reservations and information call 212-352-0255 or visit www.TheaterMania.com .
York Theatre Company
The Musical of Musicals the Musical!
Saturday, September 11 th , 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Citigroup Center
The plucky York Theatre Company's twice-extended Off-Broadway hit will defiantly play in “the safest theater in town,” i.e., the site of a recent terror threat, the Citigroup Cente r . Much like that building's nine-to-five tenants, the theater has remained open for business with its charming, critically acclaimed show.
OTHER
John Adams
On the Transmigration of Souls
Nonesuch Records releases John Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning composition On the Transmigration of Souls on August 31, 2004. The work, which was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center's Great Performers, honors the heroes, victims, and survivors of the events of September 11, 2001. Made possible with generous support from a longtime New York family, On the Transmigration of Souls received its world-premiere performances during Philharmonic concerts in September 2002, conducted by Music Director Lorin Maazel with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the New York Choral Artists. The Nonesuch recording was made during that engagement.
For more information, visit www.nonesuch.com or newyorkphilharmonic.org
Philippe Petit
Play Outside Festival of Free Outdoor Theater
Saturday, September 11
Washington Sq. Park
Philippe Petit, the man that crossed the twin towers of the World Trade Center on a tightrope 30 years ago, in a commemorative performance.
World Culture Open
Innaugural 2004 Awards Ceremony
Thursday, September 9th, 2004 8:00 p.m.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center $45
(212) 875-5030 or www.lincolncenter.org
The World Culture Open (WCO), an international non-profit that creates breakthroughs in peace and reconciliation through the celebration of the world's artistic and cultural traditions, presents its inaugural peace prize for arts and culture, which will award $100,000 to three of the twelve international finalists who have used their arts and cultural tradition to promote peace between individuals and societies.
Panel Discussion
Design: Ground Zero
Saturday, September 18
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers Street
$35 ($20 seniors; free for students with valid I.D.) Tickets available at the door Information at the Center for Architecture 212.358.6126
Leonard Lopate, host of “The Leonard Lopate Show” on WNYC radio, will moderate a panel discussion with Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava and Michael Arad, whotogether for the first time in a public forumwill talk about their visions for the World Trade Center site. The panel, entitled “Design: Ground Zero,” is the major public event of the American Institute of Architects’ conference, “Learning from Lower Manhattan.” Call the Center for Architecture at 212.358.6126 with questions – tickets are available at the door (the option for purchasing advanced tickets has expired).
Words and Images in Art in the Post 9/11 Landscape
From the Hip: words and images
September 19th at 3PM
Cooper Union's Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at third Avenue:
Photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Yusef Komunyakaa discuss "words and images in art in the post 9/11 landscape."
Free and open to the public
» Back to top
Related links:
» 2003 Anniversary Ceremony
» 2002 September 11th Anniversary Coverage
» Six Months: Rebuilding our city, rebuilding ourselves
» Back to top
