{"id":32218,"date":"2021-08-19T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/national-symphony-orchestra-commemorates-9-11-with-concert-of-remembrance\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:38:29","slug":"national-symphony-orchestra-commemorates-9-11-with-concert-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/national-symphony-orchestra-commemorates-9-11-with-concert-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"National Symphony Orchestra Commemorates 9\/11 with &#8216;Concert of Remembrance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"page-social-share\"><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"post-skyscraper-ad\"><\/aside>\n<div class=\"nice-type allow-responsive-videos\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Credit: Rebecca Fay)<\/h6>\n<p>On September 10, 2021, National Symphony Orchestra will present \u201cConcert of Remembrance,\u201d in commemoration of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of 9\/11, and in tribute of those who have served on the front lines during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by NSO music director Gianandrea Noseda, the concert will feature \u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d United States Marine Band, along with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. The program will feature songs by Leonard Bernstein, William Grant Still, Kennedy Center\u2019s new Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon, Aaron Copland, and more. There will be representatives and guests from Washington, and remarks from notable participants.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will also see the word premiere of James Lee III\u2019s \u201cAn Engraved American Mourning,\u201d a new work commissioned by the NSO and inspired by a quote made by former President George W. Bush in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will be free to attend, with tickets being reserved on a first-come first-served basis. The Kennedy Center will require all audience members to be fully vaccinated, with children under 12, patrons with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination being required to provide a negative PCR COVID-19 test result to be allowed inside. Masks will be required for all visitors regardless of vaccination status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit: Rebecca Fay) On September 10, 2021, National Symphony Orchestra will present \u201cConcert of Remembrance,\u201d in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9\/11, and in &#8230; <a title=\"National Symphony Orchestra Commemorates 9\/11 with &#8216;Concert of Remembrance&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/national-symphony-orchestra-commemorates-9-11-with-concert-of-remembrance\/\" aria-label=\"More on National Symphony Orchestra Commemorates 9\/11 with &#8216;Concert of Remembrance&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":32219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}