Brooklynites celebrate Memorial Day with concert at Green-Wood Cemetery
BY ALEX WILLIAMSON
On Monday, May 27, Brooklyn residents flocked to the 21st annual Memorial Day concert at Green-Wood Cemetery featuring the New York City Symphonic Band.
Hundreds of concertgoers sat in folding chairs or on the shady hillside while the band, led by Conductor Paul Corn, played under Green-Wood’s landmarked gothic arch. The program featured patriotic standards like “Battle Cry of Freedom” and “America the Beautiful,” as well as music composed by some of the cemetery’s permanent residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Grafulla and James Weldon Johnson.