Zarin Mehta, the orchestra's president and chief executive, said that presenting the remembrance program for Sept. 11, which took place last Saturday, was a top priority, and that collaborating with Mr. Bocelli made "good economic sense" for the Philharmonic.
At the root of the reaction is the subject of memory, "the conflict between the fading of memory and the need to remember," he said, and asked, "When living memory is no longer present, what will remembrance be?" In the short term the artistic response to horrific events is not a deep one, said Detlef Hoffmann, a German art historian.
Mr. Adriaenssens, who specializes in working with sexual abuse victims, said he believed that the turning point for the nephew came when a 12-year-old niece took home a holy card with a message from the bishop presented as a remembrance of her confirmation.
Still, one wonders if the show is as much a reaffirmation of present possibilities as a remembrance of things past.
The bulk of the firm's business is in hand-illuminated scrolls, resolutions, and remembrance books presented to retiring officials by grateful employees, and so on.
In fact, as Mr. Bush prepares for the second anniversary, the tone of remembrances past, present and future underscore the continued sensitivity at the White House and within the Republican Party about how to mark not only the 9/11 attacks, but all that followed.
Setting her narrative between the 1980s and the present, Jorge dealt with postimperial remembrance by way of a monologue about the perils of success and stardom in Portugal's musical milieu.
Headings such as "Remembrance of Things Present", "Sensitive Skin" and "Matters Immaterial" immediately convey the editorial sensibility, which is a poetic one, something like a Goldsmiths College art student crossed with EJ Thribb.
The shop owner presented them to him in remembrance of "these frightening and wonderful times".
