Prayers and Remembrances Prayers and Remembrances (2011) was commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy by True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Eric Holtan, Music Director, and Mrs. Dorothy Vanek, in loving memory of her husband, Robert Vanek, and in memory of friends of the Vaneks from United and American Airlines who were lost on September 11, 2001. The idea for Prayers and Remembrances began with Eric Holtan. He approached me a few years…
September 11th not only marks the True Concord Voices & Orchestra Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus recording release, it also marks the True Concord Voices & Orchestra and Stephen Paulus’s Prayers and Remembrances New York Premiere at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. True Concord Voices & Orchestra™ was founded in 2004 as Tucson Chamber Artists. True Concord draws upon the first rank of professional choral and instrumental musicians from around the…