On May 18, 2006, her daughter Jennifer organized a memorial concert in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The participants were the Guarneri Quartet (with Paul Watkins, Jennifer's husband), Courtenay Budd, Nicolas Kendall, Pei Yao Wang, Edmund Battersby, James Tocco, Susan Wadsworth, director of the "Young Concert Artists", and the flutist Paula Robison. Courtenay Budd sang Ruth Laredo's favourite song, Franz Schubert's "An die Musik", the title of which Jennifer had chosen for the inscription on her mother's gravestone.