The program also included a contingent of composers who have worked closely with the Metropolis players.
The decision disappointed dozens of children, including a contingent of violin students at the Mount Carmel-Holy Roschoollementary school in East Harlem who had been studying all year for the auditions.
With obvious pleasure, Mr. Farrakhan greeted an assortment of religious and foreign political figures, including a contingent of Jews from the Neturei Karta International in Monsey, N.Y.
Everyone clambers off, including a contingent of volunteers who spend a week at a time here, helping to protect a unique location.
Such actions are being sponsored by groups including a contingent of workers called OUR Walmart that is calling attention to what it says are tough working conditions.
Other vessels will include a contingent of Dunkirk "little ships" and tall ships such as the Southampton-based Tenacious, which will be sailed by a mixed crew of able-bodied and disabled people.
Although the rally was staged in front of the Somerset Administration Building, with a ready number of political workers inside, the crowd was small enough to be counted by hand -- 41 people, including a contingent of Republican leaders.
Lisel Burns, the clergy leader of the Brooklyn Society for EthicalCulture, led the ceremony, which was attended by about 115 guests, including a contingent of nearly a dozen Teach for America alumni.
Another 100 or so guests were split between a corporate meeting and a gathering of executives and academics (including a contingent of astronomers) sponsored by the Cornell Adult University division of Cornell University.
