The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, the innovative, street-level, intimate performance studio of WNYC and WQXR - the nation's most-listened to public radio and classical stations - presents two events to honor the memory of 9/11.
A CITY REIMAGINED: 9/11
Intimate Readings of First-Hand 9/11 Accounts by New York's Theater Community
In partnership with The New Press and Columbia University's Oral History Research Office
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7-8 at 7pm
Within days of 9/11, interviewers were employed across the city by Columbia's Oral History Research OffIce To begin collecting the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York neighborhoods and backgrounds. Over the last ten years, follow-up interviews revealed how individuals and the city, as a whole, have had to reimagine their own narratives. The resulting book, After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2011 and the Years that Followed, is a selection of fascinating testimonies, with heartbreaking and enlightening stories that propel us into the future and beg the question: who are we-ten years later-as a city, a nation a globe?
These first-hand accounts will be read by members of the New York City theater community, including Joan Allen, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Rocco Sisto, Peter Strauss, and Rachel Ticotin, among others. Additionally, Award-winning writer Carl Hancock Rux will perform an original spoken word piece commissioned by The Greene Space with accompaniment by cellist/trombonist DANA LEONG, who has been described as the "hi-def Yo-Yo Ma." CEY ADAMS, who just completed an exhibit at MoMA in spring 2011, will design the set.
Tickets: $25, includes a complimentary copy of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2011 and the Years that Followed; available for purchase at www.thegreenespace.org.
"MUSIC OF REFLECTION AND RESILIENCE: THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE"
The Esteemed Choir to Present its First Public Performance Under Kent Tritle's Direction
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 at 7pm
Classical 105.9 FM WQXR will present the esteemed choir's first public performance under the direction of its new Music Director, KENT TRITLE.
Tritle, the newly appointed Music Director at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and host of The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle on WQXR, will lead the professional Cathedral Choir in a program of works that offer solace, renewal, and hope. Musical selections will include a cappella and accompanied works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Tallis, as well as The Best Beloved, a composition by longtime Trinity Church choir member Chris DeBlasio. In addition to the radio broadcast, the event will stream as a live video webcast at www.wqxr.org.
Tickets: $20; available for purchase at www.thegreenespace.org.
