Bang on a Can

I've spent the past year going in and out of synagogues to say Kaddish for Madeline. Of course she wouldn't have approved of all the praying. Madeline came from a different world - a world where Jews grew up in ghettos. I realized all of this only much later. There's plenty of time to think about these things in synagogue because there are so many prayers and who can concentrate on all of them? Madeline loved music and she would take me to concerts when I was little. I would fall asleep but that didn't deter her. She would have loved to be here tonight to celebrate the reopening of this great music hall. This music is for her. -Michael Gordon