In Winnipeg, Ana sang in her school choir, and when Mr. Greene wrote choral parts for several songs on the new album, he chose the same children's choir there to sing in Ana's memory.
Though small of voice, Ana Durlovski sings the Queen of the Night accurately and with tonal resonance.
Ana Quintans sings Jonathas with daring and pathos, Neal Davies is a sonorous Saul, and other roles taken by chorus members are small-voiced but artful.
Regarding Prokofiev's music, Miaskovsky wrote, "What a pleasure to come across this vivid phenomenon amid the morass of spinelessness and anemia of today!" The rich-voiced mezzo-soprano Ana Mihanovic sang two Miaskovsky songs, including the turbulent "Interlude" from "Madrigal" (Op. 7, No. 3).
Its new soul lay in the music playlist embedded in Rukeih Malik's iPhone: Lady Gaga, Cobra Starship, the Belgrade-born singer Ana Kokic and The Bilz, a Canadian-South Asian band, singing "2 Step Bhangra".
The recording also includes a duet by Mr. Greene and the guitarist Pat Metheny of the hymn "Come Thou Almighty King," which Ana liked to sing while her older brother accompanied her on the piano.
When Fher Olvera sang "Ana," a video screen showed pictures of condoms and statistics about unwanted pregnancy and AIDS; "Ángel de Amor" offered healing love to an abused woman.
The final reading attracted attention around the world, with clips of the public gallery singing the Maori song Pokarekare Ana and a conservative National MP's jovial dismissal of the fears of a "gay onslaught" receiving hundreds of thousands of views.
"The last time we spoke, the little one was singing to me in English," Ana said.
People watching from the public gallery and some lawmakers immediately broke into song, singing the New Zealand love song "Pokarekare Ana", AP news agency reported.
