1912 / prison 1934–63 · U.S. Army / Bureau of Prisons · North America
The chamber score
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber · 1936
Memorial weather. The country keeps borrowing it.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
The former federal penitentiary, among America's most visited dark monuments.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct Alcatraz through fear — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if Alcatraz was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
