They That Mourn New York Performances

At Bargemusic, the Horszowski Trio presents the New York premiere of Jan Swafford’s *They That Mourn*, written in memory of September 11. Swafford is known in New York not only as a composer but as a biographer of Ives, Brahms, Beethoven, and Mozart, with an academic background that anchors the work in research as much as feeling. The piece sits between classical chamber writing and the tonal world of rock and pop, using direct gesture rather than abstraction. Its significance here is local and historical: a new NYC premiere that revisits a shared civic trauma without turning it into spectacle.