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Meira Warshauer’s In Memoriam September 11, 2001 is available for programs commemorating the anniversary of that important day in recent American and world history.The 4 minute 30 second
In Memoriam September 11, 2001 is available in three versions, for solo cello and string orchestra, for solo cello or cello and violin duo. For a perusal score of and any other information about this piece and the music of Meira Warshauer, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting.The version for solo cello and string orchestra was premiered in February 2003 at the Israel Embassy in Washington, DC, by solo cellist Ina Esther Joost and the King David Strings (members of the Jerusalem Symphony) conducted by Anita Kamien.Ms. Joost has written the following about the piece, "Meira's music (In Memoriam Sept 11) comes from a place which is beyond music. It is like a prayer, a niggun, from deep within the soul. It always evokes deep responses from the listeners and is very moving for me personally to perform." Ms. Kamien has written "In Memoriam September 11th is an uncanny emotional depiction of disintegration and loss which penetrates the viscera of the performers and audience, yet leaves us with the cry of the human spirit."Ina Esther Joost also performed the solo version in the Old City of Jerusalem in August, 2002, and at Tizmoret Summer Workshop near Baltimore, Maryland, July 10. She will perform it at the International Cello Encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 31 and August 3, 2003.The solo version has also been performed by cellist Robert Jesselson at the Killington Festival (Rutland, Vermont), at the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem at the Encore-Coda Camp in Sweden, Maine, in a February 2003 recital at the University of South Carolina and in two March 2003 performances at the Tonbridge School in England and at the American String Teachers Association conference in Columbus, Ohio.Mr. Jesselson has written, “
In Memoriam is a very moving tribute to the victims of the September 11 tragedy, and to all victims of war and terror. It invariably touches the listener not by an angry reaction to the events, but through a soulful and elegiac sigh of remembrance. Although there is no specific programmatic aspect to the music, audiences sometimes hear their own images of the events in the music, including the slow descent of the thousands of papers floating down from the towers".You can hear Robert Jesselson’s performance online. It was also broadcast on Kol Israel radio in an hour-long program of the music of Meira Warshauer in Spring 2002.Meira Warshauer studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. Her works have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, South America, and Asia. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. She was awarded the Artist Fellowship in Music by the SC Arts Commission in 1994, and in 2000, received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina. Dr. Warshauer is an Associate Music Faculty member at Columbia College, Columbia, SC. Her innovative course, "The Healing Art of Music," is a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary approach to the experience of music as a source of healing.Warshauer has received commissions from the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic, the South Carolina Philharmonic (three orchestra works), the Zamir Chorale of Boston with the Rottenberg Chorale (NYC), Zemer Chai (Washington, DC), Gratz College (Philadelphia), Kol Dodi (New Jersey); the Cantors Assembly, clarinetist Richard Nunemaker, violinist Daniel Heifetz, and flutist Paula Robison. Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light, chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label, and Revelation for orchestra, included on Robert Black Conducts, MMC. YES! for clarinet and orchestra, written for and recorded by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic, is scheduled for release by MMC in 2004.
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