摘要：
观众也许很少能看到诺贝尔、普利策、格莱美以及奥斯卡等大奖的得主们同台演出，但飓风“卡特里娜”却提供了这个机会。24日，由《纽约客(http://www.xmyuanda.com》
杂志赞助的赈灾义演在纽约曼哈顿举行。
It's not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, sponsored by The New Yorker as part of its annual New Yorker Festival, brought an eclectic and star-studded cast of performers to Manhattan on Saturday night.
观众也许很少能看到诺贝尔、普利策、格莱美以及奥斯卡等大奖的得主们同台演出，但飓风“卡特里娜”却提供了这个机会。24日，由《纽约客(http://www.xmyuanda.com》 杂志赞助的赈灾义演在纽约曼哈顿举行。
据美联社9月25日报道，作为今年“纽约客节”庆祝活动的一部分，《纽约客(http://www.xmyuanda.com》 杂志聚集了包括作家托妮·莫里森、摇滚歌星卢·里德、艾尔维斯·卡斯特罗、影星凯文·克莱恩、作家理查德·福特和影星威廉·达福在内的众多文艺界名人，于24日晚在曼哈顿举行了大型赈灾晚会。
晚会上，女星帕特里夏·克拉克森朗诵了普利策戏剧奖得主、已故剧作家田纳西·威廉斯曾在新奥尔良著名旅游区“法国角”写的一封信；《纽约客(http://www.xmyuanda.com》 作者喀尔文·特里林朗读了描写新奥尔良市民随遇而安心态的散文；演员特伦斯·霍华德还诵读了一篇马克·吐温的介绍新奥尔良建筑的文章。
此外，导演伍迪·艾伦与埃迪·戴维斯及他的新奥尔良乐队表演了单簧管。凯文·克莱恩演唱了兰迪·纽曼的《路易斯安那1927(http://www.xmyuanda.com》 ，这首创作于上个世纪70年代中期的歌就像专门为“卡特里娜”飓风所谱写的。同时，美国音乐界众多巨星也参加了此次赈灾义演。据《纽约客(http://www.xmyuanda.com》 编辑大卫·雷姆尼克透露，许多演出者还在寻找他们在飓风中失踪的亲人。
报道说，晚会的门票为50美元至250美元，门票收入将全部捐赠给美国红十字会。
It's not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, sponsored by The New Yorker as part of its annual New Yorker Festival, brought an eclectic and star-studded cast of performers to Manhattan on Saturday night. The lineup included Toni Morrison, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Kevin Kline, Richard Ford, Willem Dafoe and lots of zydeco music.
Most of the evening's entertainment celebrated New Orleans culture.
Actress Patricia Clarkson read Tennessee Williams' letters from the French Quarter, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin read an essay about the city's anything-goes attitude, and actor Terrence Howard read a Mark Twain essay about New Orleans architecture.
Woody Allen played the clarinet with Eddy Davis and his New Orleans Jazz Band, and Kevin Kline played Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927," a song from the mid-1970's that sounds as if it could have been written about Hurricane Katrina.
Other performers included musician David Byrne, Buckwheat Zydeco, Queen Ida and Her Zydeco Band, Audra McDonald, Mary-Louise Parker, Walter Wolfman Washington and the Roadmasters and more. New Yorker editor David Remnick said many of the performers were still searching for relatives missing since the hurricane.
Tickets for the event ranged from $50 to $250, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross. Conde Nast Publications, publisher of The New Yorker, will match the donation.
