Oliver Messiaen's "The End of the World" and Cameron Carpenter playing "Stars and Stripes"

If I remember correctly, 9/11/01 was a Tuesday. On the Thursday before, Oliver Messaien's "The End of the World" was performed on the old organ at Trinity Church. I attended that concert, having taken a PATH train and crossed through the Twin Towers central plaza with its globe where a country ang western concert was in progress. Dust from 9/11 destroyed the old organ. Trinity now has a new computer console organ. Cameron Carpenter, who was very involved with the creation of the new organ, played his rendition of "Stars and Stripes" at a June 2007 concert I attended.

Barbara Ackerman