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Christine's Lullaby
AN ELEGY FOR ORCHESTRA
ABOUT THE COMPOSITION Christine's Lullaby, composed in December 2001, is an elegy for orchestra written in memory and honor of Christine Lee Hanson, the youngest victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Christine, born February 22, 1999, was the daughter of Peter and Sue Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts. All three were killed when the first plane ride of Christine’s life, one that was to take her to California to visit her great-grandmother and tour Disneyland, was hijacked and flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
Christine's
Lullaby is dedicated to those who
keep Christine’s spirit alive: friends, schoolteachers, and others who were a
part of her life; and her surviving family, including her grandparents, Lee and
Eunice Hanson of Easton, Connecticut. For more information, read the Star Tribune's article on Christine's Lullaby, published May 4, 2003. |
A memorial fund in Christine’s name is used by the Boston Medical Center’s pediatric unit to support their PainFree Pediatrics program and other treatment of childhood disease. If you would like to contribute, please send your donation to:
Christine Lee
Hanson Fund Please make checks payable to PainFree Pediatrics in memory of Christine Lee Hanson. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT THE COMPOSER Carl Schroeder of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a 2005 graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he studied music composition with Timothy Mahr and Peter Hamlin. He wrote Christine's Lullaby in December 2001 as a gift to Christine Lee Hanson and those who were touched by her brief life, and arranged the work for concert band in 2006 at the request of New York's Fox Lane High School. Any proceeds from the work will be donated to the Christine Lee Hanson Fund. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MORE ON CHRISTINE'S LULLABY
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