A NEW WAKE

Support in Solidarity of Children and Families Lost
14 February 2005
The Riverside Church, New York

A NEW WAKE was a fundraiser for the Southeast Asian Tsunami relief efforts of Faithful America, and was sponsored by The Riverside Church Mission and Social Justice Office and the National Council of Churches.

PROGRAM

I.

The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Sam Oatts, trumpet
Molly Filer, Joceleye Roy, Jessica Schmitz, Emily Weidenof, flutes
String Orchestra
Ted Hearne, conductor
“Where Everything is Music” by Rumi (1207-1273)
A Reading by Sarah Moberg
Yo yo ma o
a Nigerian funerary song
The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius read by David Medine
Selections by Ben Cassorla Trio
The Deadliest Earthquake in History (AD 1201: Mediterranean Sea) read by Molly Dunn
Os homens que vao pra guerra by Fernando Lopes-Grace (1907-1994)
A Year Ago in Iran (AD 2003: Bam, Iran) read by Amy Kirkhum
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
An African-American spiritual, arranged by Ted Hearne
Marissa Famiglietti, soprano
Weather 3 by Michael Gordon (b. 1956)
String Orchestra and Tape
Ted Hearne, conductor
Projection by Michael Ramsey

II.

Performance by Send Judah First Step Team
Minister Melvin John P. Miller, artistic director
Roni Norford, asst. director
Fw:Fw: Please Look (from Lost Objects) by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe
Daisy Press, soprano
Full Orchestra
Ted Hearne, conductor
“A New Wake” by Meghan Deans
A reading by Sarah Moberg
Doyi-doyi doyya babba (trad. Sri Lankan lullaby)
Petronella Fernando, soloist
Noah Geller, violin
Something There by Dinuk Wijeratne
Performed by Dinuk Wijeratne, piano and Kinan Azmeg, clarinet
Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano by David Popper (1843-1913)
Julia Lichten, Amali Premawardhana, John Popham, cellos
Dhilanthi Fernando, piano
Selections by Nellie McKay
“The Reasons you can and can’t” by Meghan Deans
A reading by Sarah Moberg
Senzeni na? (Xhosa folk song)
Golden Gate Bridge by Ted Hearne
Ave Maria by Igor Stravinsky

PERFORMERS
Ted Hearne, conductor
Amali Premawardhana, production coordinator
Tereza Lee, stage manager
Nellie McKay, singer/songwriter
Julia Lichten, cello
Sam Oatts, trumpet
Ben Cassorla Trio
Dinuk Wijeratne, piano
Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
Daisy Press, soprano
Petronella Fernando, soprano
Marissa Famiglietti, soprano

READINGS BY Sarah Moberg, Molly Dunn, Amy Kirkhum and David Medine

CHOIR: Bill Eddy, Anthony Fett, Abby Fischer, Mel Flannery, Cooper Grodin, Matthew Hensrud, Kathryn Mulvihill, Adam Overett, Daisy Press, Elizabeth Reiter, Virginia Warnken, Geroge Wright

ORCHESTRA:
VIOLIN: Noah Geller (concertmaster), Eliza Cho, Allyson Clark, Jo Chay, Kiku Enomoto, Gabriella Fink, Everhard Paredes, Ayumi Takeshima, Eiko Tanaka
VIOLA: David Medine, Elise Frawley, Raphael Rodriguez
CELLO: Jody Redhage, Andrew Janns, Maria Jeffers, Kaiwen Liu, John Popham, Amali Premawardhana
DOUBLE BASS: Kris Saebo, Greg Robbins
FLUTE: Molly Filer, Jocelyne Roy, Jessica Schmitz, Emily Weidenhof
OBOE: Sandra Lloyd, Jeanette Zyko
CLARINET: Rachel Easterwood, Schyler Fung
BASSOON: William Hestand, Natalie Pilla
FRENCH HORN: Nathan Koci, James Richardson, Russell Bonifede, Brian Hawthorne
TRUMPET: Sam Oatts, Suresh Singaratnam
TROMBONE: Edward Adams, Jack Chou
PERCUSSION: Kevin Sims, Jonathan Shapiro
KEYBOARD: Renate Rohlfing
ELECTRIC GUITAR: Taylor Levine
ELECTRIC BASS: Kris Saebo