Still, many have felt compelled to respond; in his remarks before a concert at Trinity Church on Thursday evening, Julian Wachner, the church's music director, said that thousands of pieces had been offered for performance during a week of memorial events there.
Instead, the orchestra gave a memorial performance of Brahms's "German Requiem".
Another was a memorial performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the former concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, in 2000.
After a memorial performance of Brahms's "German Requiem" last evening, concerts for tonight and tomorrow afternoon have been canceled.
Cunningham died in 2009, and one of the inspirations here came from a memorial performance of his dances held that October at New York's Park Avenue Armory, which I wrote about at the time.
And in his noblest moment in New York, conducting a soul-stirring memorial performance of Brahms's "German Requiem" nine days after the attacks of Sept. 11, he offered not only a broader kind of leadership but also a taste of what what might have been.
In a bumbling performance, he twice got the name of Memorial wrong as he trumpeted the arrest of three members of its staff — Dr. Anna M. Pou, and two surgical intensive care nurses, Cheri Landry and Lori Budo — for "plain and simple homicide".
Mr. Hellsberg has also arranged a number of memorial concerts, including a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 2000 in the quarry of a Nazi labor camp in Mauthausen, Austria.
Fittingly, the program ended with a fiery and emotive performance of Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2, a memorial for a close friend of the composer's.
Besides her silver medal, she won the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for best performance of chamber music and the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the best performance of a new work.
