A contrasting sense of solemnity followed in two brief yet moving memorial works for unaccompanied soprano saxophone by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
The Lincoln Memorial works as well as it does partly because it is at the end of the Mall, terminating the vista, and not near the middle, but also because the designer, Henry Bacon, had absolute clarity of vision.
Two composers provided meditative memorial works: Ms. Zwilich's "Lament," with its gently ballad-like character, commemorated Ms. Arron, and Wolfgang Rihm memorialized five friends in "Zwiesprache," a set of involving movements that are alternately melancholy, angry and bittersweet.
Roughly 300 actually make headstones and memorials, working with heavy machinery, and those who still hand-carve granite are no more than six or so.
We edit and we try to get them in great shape and you know check the names and check the dates and all those important things, but it's really up to the classes to make those memorials work.
Count on the dynamic and insightful Mr. Robertson to find intriguing resonances between these two gravely beautiful memorial works.
These visits will be supplemented by performances by Chilean theater groups and a public roundtable by Chilean and American artists discussing the memorial work of photography.
As a response to the attacks, "Threnodia" is no more adequate than any of the other memorial works; most have been played once and filed quietly away.
Juxtapositions were important in the first half of the program, and Mr. Smith found an interesting antique to set beside his new memorial work.
The famous Eighth Quartet, for instance, has been discussed as a memorial work or an anguished response to the composer's decision to join the Communist Party in 1960.
