President George W. George Bush joined premiere league actors and musicians at a concert to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks on New York last night in an event to be broadcast on US TV on the night of the 11th. Placido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin and Al Green were among the acts that performed, with actors delivering readings between the music. "Today we mourn the lost, honour the living and celebrate the character of our country and the creativity of our people," the president told the audience. National Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin added: "Music seems to say and touch people in a way that no other form of expression can,"
The concert runs alongside a three day theatre marathon in New York involving among others, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and Calista Flockhart.