Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam September 11, 2001 Available for Anniversary
Programs

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 at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

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 at http://www.kalvos.org/
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.

Visit her website at http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/. You can read
the latest issue of her Bracha Newsletter at
http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/brachanewsletter.html

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
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