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AUDIO: Jason Robert Brown Writes 'Twenty-Six Names' Tribute to Newtown Victims

By: Dec. 16, 2012
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Renowned musical theatre composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, "13", Honeymoon in Vegas) posted on his website a tribute to the 26 lost in Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

"I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place," he wrote. "I'm sorry if I mispronounced anything."

Click below to listen.

Twenty-Six Names

Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine F. Hsu, 6
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi,6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison N. Wyatt, 6

Rachel Davino, 29
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Lauren Rosseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto, 27




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