Poignantly, the University of South Carolina awarded a posthumous degree to the parents of Samantha Josephson on Saturday. Josephson, who was a resident of Robbinsville, NJ, was found murdered in March after climbing into a vehicle she mistook for an Uber.
The tragedy has been widely reported in the media. Now Josephson’s cousin, composer Louis A. Josephson has a written a moving tribute to her memory.
The work, “Remember Her Name,” will be given its world premiere by the Westminster Community Chorus at the Princeton Meadow Event Center on Friday at 8 p.m. Also on the program will be choral works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Franck, Brant Adams, and Ēriks Ešenvalds, and orchestral music by Copland, Ravel, Dvořák, and Sibelius, performed by the Westminster Community Orchestra.
Louis A. Josephson and Ruth Ochs, music director of the WCO, will drop by The Classical Network this afternoon at 5:00 EDT to tell us more about the concert, the new work, and What’s My Name, an organization set up by Samantha Josephson’s parents to promote awareness of the importance ride share safety (additional information at whatsmyname.org).
I’ve also programmed music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, Joseph Achron, and Ottokar Nováček, to be offered on the anniversary of their births, and Jane Glover will conduct Haydn, among the featured selections, between 4 and 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.