Center for Performing Arts concert: ‘In Memoriam’ honors 9/11 victims and their families
Event will feature Stevens Choir, original compositions, art and more
HOBOKEN , N.J. — The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium proudly presents “In Memoriam,” a concert honoring the victims and survivors of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The concert, which will feature Stevens Institute of Technology’s Choir under the direction of Bethany Reeves, will be held on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. in DeBaun Auditorium. Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $5. In conjunction with the concert, a new painting about 9/11, “Comfort and Hope,” by Hoboken artist Raymond Smith, will be unveiled.
The repertoire for the concert includes premiers of James RedCay’s new “Cantata for September 11, 2001,” which was written for this event. A reading, from a first-person account of 9/11, will be included during the song. Redcay, a Hoboken resident and a composition student at New York University , serves as pianist for the Stevens Choir and other musical events on the Stevens campus and in Hoboken . The choir will also sing James Stepleton’s “Music for September 11th,” written a few months after the attacks. Stepleton, an award-winning composer, teaches Music Appreciation and Theory at Stevens.
The concert also will include excerpts from the Mozart Requiem and works by Byrd, Tallis, Billings and Chatman. Various readings, ranging from poetry by John Donne and Longfellow, to excerpts from historical speeches and contemporary thought about 9/11, will be featured in the program.
The Stevens Choir is the primary choral group at Stevens. The Choir, formerly known as the Glee Club, sings a variety of music, ranging from classical chloral pieces to modern jazz arrangements. It is comprised of about 30 men and women, and membership is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as Stevens’ faculty and staff.
The Choir’s director, Bethany Reeves, specializes in teaching voice and voice-related subjects. Her students range from professional and vocational singers in all styles: classical actors focusing on the spoken voice to opera professionals in the Young Art ist Program of the Berkshire Opera Company. Reeves holds degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Arizona State University and is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University ’s Mason Gross School of the Art s. She is a member of the American Cho ral Director’s Association and the New York Singing Teachers Association and has appeared at Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and Kennedy Center . Reeves’ work as a soprano soloist has featured appearances with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Actors Shakespeare Company in cameo singing roles, and New York ’s adventurous American Chamber Opera Company, where she has sung classics of her chamber opera repertoire as well as premiering works written especially for her.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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