In Saturday’s (12/15) Dallas Morning News, Michael Granberry writes, “The late Raymond Nasher, founder of the Nasher Sculpture Center, was among those waiting at the Dallas Trade Mart for the arrival of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Kennedy never made it, having been wounded on Elm Street moments earlier. He died at Parkland Hospital, and now, nearly a half-century after his death, Dallas is honoring his memory with a series of events that also involve music. Director Jeremy Strick said Friday that the Nasher Center has commissioned a new musical work as part of its Soundings series that will honor the president and have one of its world premiere performances in the Nasher auditorium. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has also commissioned a piece, and the Dallas Museum of Art is staging a special exhibition in honor of Kennedy. The Nasher piece is titled One Red Rose, a reference to a blood-soaked rose that fell from the bouquet that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy carried through the streets of Dallas. It’s composed by the Grammy Award-winning Steven Mackey, who is sharing the project with New York-based Carnegie Hall, where it will first be performed, and the Putney, Vt.-based Yellow Barn, where the song was crafted.”
Posted December 17, 2012
