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Harp quartet to perform in brief memorial to Sept. 11 attacks

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The School of Music at the University of Illinois will commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. with its annual memorial concert.

The observance, free and open to the public, will begin at 7:46 a.m. Sept. 11 in Smith Hall, 805 S. Mathews St., Urbana. The start coincides with the time that the first hijacked plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The program will conclude about 15 minutes later, marking the time that the second airliner struck the center’s south tower. As in previous years, there will be no speeches or talking during the program, and audience members are asked to enter and leave in silence.

The recently formed UI Harp Quartet, which has performed in Beckman Institute’s Thursdays at Twelve-Twenty Recital Series and the School of Music’s Summer Harp Class, will perform. The quartet – alumna Katherine Denler and students Stephanie Gustafson, Peter Huang and Lisa Kahn – will perform the works “Carl & Ellie” from the Disney-Pixar film “UP”; J.S. Bach’s “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr (I call to you, Lord),” arranged by faculty member Ann Yeung; Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”; and Fauré’s “Berceuse” from the “Dolly Suite, Op. 56.”

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