is a marathon concert, co-produced by composers Eleonor Sandresky and Daniel Felsenfeld, to take place on September 11, 2011, commencing at 8:46 am and finishing after midnight at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, Manhattan. Composers who lived or were housed downtown on that day a decade prior will be represented. It will be a concert that will demonstrate, with an appropriately-long arc, not only the sheer number of composers who were immediately affected but also the fact that, ten years on, they are still here, still doing what they do. Beyond that, it will be a free, casual, un-sanctimonious place where the music community en masse, and anyone else who wants to join us, can go—to meet, to think, to listen. The day will be about Music - speech-making and memorializing will happen elsewhere and by others. On September 11th, 2001, Daniel Felsenfeld was a few blocks from the World Trade Center, looking after the apartment of Eleonor Sandresky, who was on tour with the Philip Glass Ensemble in Brazil. Both of them—like all of the composers featured—were forever changed. It was for this reason that they both decided to produce this concert, a gift to (and from) the city.
WQXR chat
Alex Ross on The Rest is Noise
Anne Midgette on her blog in the Washington Post (scroll down to the bottom)
Sequenza 21