Jim Rosenfield
Celebration of Life
Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 1:00 pm
SGI-USA Queens Buddhist Center
Buddhist Ceremony of Incense Offering
Erin Penoyer & Tom Hatton / Center volunteers
We will recite Buddhist prayers of gongyo (portions of the Lotus Sutra) and chanting of “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.” While chanting everyone is invited to participate in the incense offering. This is an expression of our sincere prayer for the eternal enlightenment of the deceased. SGI support group will direct participants.
Speaker — Steve Rosenfield
Speaker — Carol Price
Speaker — Randy Katz
Reading of Poems by Jim — Jackie Braje
“Mickey’s Dream”
“Poem #24B”
Speaker/Introduction of Musical Program 1 — Lisa Bielawa
Dissolve, O My Heart — Missy Mazzoli
Pauline Kim Harris, violin
Simple Songs II: Psalm I — Aaron Jay Kernis
Ariadne Greif, soprano
Aaron Jay Kernis, piano
“Recife” Concerto for Harp, Strings, and Percussion (excerpt) — João Luiz Rezenda
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Speaker — Simon Dinnerstein
Speaker — Philip Webb
Speakers — Frank Oteri & Trudy Chan
Speaker/Introduction of Musical Program 2 — Missy Mazzoli
Water Lilies — Hannah Chen
Contemporaneous:
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Julia Henderson, cello
Paul Kerekes, piano
For Jim (work in progress for violin) — Lisa Bielawa
Giancarlo Latta, violin (Contemporaneous)
Video Compilation — The Musical Legacy of Jim Rosenfield
Speaker — Israella Mayeri
Buddhist Closing Words
Tom Hatton
Jim Rosenfield’s Legacy: Projects, Organizations and Artists
In addition to regular gifts to major arts and music organizations in New York and San Diego (Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, La Jolla Music Society, San Diego Music & Art, Mozart Youth Camerata, others), Jim gave gifts to anti-hate causes through the Southern Poverty Law Center, and to numerous cancer research non-profits.
His love for new music and composer-led projects found its way to the forefront of his philanthropic activity starting in 2005.
Major Gifts
Carlsbad Music Festival (2006-2020)
Contemporaneous (2016-2024)*
International Contemporary Ensemble (2013-2023)
Luna Composition Lab (2018-2023)
MATA Festival (2006-2024)**
TENET NYC (2015-2024)
Additional Gifts to Organizations
Bang on a Can (2005-2019)
Beth Morrison Projects (2015-2018)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (2006-2009)*
Caborca Theatre (2017)
Cantata Profana (2019)
Concerts on the Slope (2018)
Cutting Edge Concerts (2015-2019)
Eighth Blackbird (2005-2007)*
Face the Music, Kaufman Music Center (2015)
Heartbeat Opera (2023)
Kaufman Music Center (2021)
Kettle Corn New Music (2017)
Mainly Mozart, Inc. (2017)
Mantra Percussion Inc. (2014)
Pnea (2018)
Resonant Bodies Festival (2018)
Roulette Intermedium (2017-2018)
St. Ann’s Warehouse (2017)
* Board member
** Board president
Special Projects
Gabriela Ortiz, Aroma foliado (2005) for Cuartetto Latinamericano
Derek Bermel, BMOPSound recording (2006)
Lisa Bielawa: Double Violin Concerto (2007) for BMOP, Carla Kihlstedt & Colin Jacobsen, violins; Chance Encounter recording (2009), The Knights & Susan Narucki; Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser (2017), KCET-TV opera; Broadcast from Home (2020); violin concerto for Tessa Lark, commission (current)
Missy Mazzoli, Songs from the Uproar (2011), Beth Morrison Productions
Dylan Mattingly, Stranger Love (2020), Contemporaneous
Carla Kihlstedt, Black Inscription (2017), Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
Female Iranian Composers Initiative (2018), International Contemporary Ensemble
Sirota@70 at Kaufman Music Center (2019)
Simon Dinnerstein artist exhibit, Museum of Art and Archeology (2017)
Dai Fujikura, Code D for pianist Jacob Greenberg (2016)
Pianist Jacob Greenberg’s Nathan Davis project (2017)
Simone Dinnerstein, pianist, “Mozart in Havana” project (2017)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project 25th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall, with works by
Andrew Norman, Lisa Bielawa, Lei Liang
Lucy Deghrae, soprano, “Processing” series (2020), Original Music Workshop
Milad Yousufi, string quartet (2018-2020), Terezin Music Foundation
Joao Luiz Rezenda, harp concerto (2019) for Bridget Kibbey, Orlando Philharmonic
Alex Weiser, recording with Bang on a Can (2019)
Gifts in honor of Jim
Per the request of Jim and Israella, please consider making a donation to:
About our hosts
The Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA) is a lay Buddhist global community of more than 11 million people in 192 countries and territories that practice the humanistic philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism centered on respect for the dignity of life. We are committed to dialogue and nonviolence based on the conviction that individual happiness and the realization of peace are inextricably linked. Our daily practice is chanting the phrase “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” and reciting portions of the Lotus Sutra as a means to embrace and bring forth our Buddha nature, our limitless reserves of wisdom, courage and compassion and apply them to our daily lives.