Chaconne by Bach, performed by Heifetz
To me, this captures all the hope and suffering of 9/11.
Erica
vary the streaming playlist...
I just happened to check out the WQXR special music stream playlist...& for yesterday & today, it's the same music.
I don't get it. Please expand the music selection.
Vic
Coplin's Fanfare for the Common Man
It represents a musical unifying theme that this Nation so badly needs during these times and particularly during the commemeration of 9/11.
Gershon Gurin-Podlish
Pie Jesu from John Rutter's Requiem
A petition for mercy on those who have died and to grant peace not only to them but to those who must live without them. The piercing sweetness of the boy soprano solo is so pure and devoid of any feeling but love and prayer that it makes me feel comforted in spite of the sadness it provokes.
Susan Hayes
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber
Stately, poignant, eloquent...
Roz & Michael
"Four Drinks" by Pillow Theory
"Four Drinks" was written by Kelsey of the NYC alt-rock band Pillow Theory. He worked at the Borders bookstore at the WTC. Because of a late-night gig on 9/10, he was late for work on 9/11 and was spared from the events of that tragic day. "Four Drinks" is an exploration of the feelings we New Yorkers experienced in the following days: shock, anger, sadness, pain and ultimately, redemption and gratitude. "Four Drinks" can be heard on facebook.com/pillowtheory from now until 9/12. Thank you for creating this special show for 9/11/2011.
Kathleen Reynolds
Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten
I lived on Washington Sq. on 9/11/01. When we saw what happened, many of my friends gathered out our place. We weren't quite sure why. In hind sight, we needed to be together as a community. As usual, I made food and we listened to music. We needed to be nourished, not only with food, but also sound--most of us were classically trained musicians. I put on the Britten recording with Kings College Cambridge. Somehow it helped us through. The setting of the Christopher Smart texts is so powerful and the performance perfect. This piece is forever attached to that day in my memory. I hope, and I'm sure you will, play the Beethoven 9th. "O Freunde, night diese Toene."
Marvin J. Taylor
Fanfare for the Common Man,NY Phil. conducted by James Levine
My name is Gerard A.McEnerney COL-US Army (ret).On 9/11 I was the Chief US Army regional Emerg. Preparedness Liason Officer,FEMA Region 2 in Manh.My request is Fanfare for the Common Man,James Levine conducting.Within the first critical hours,with little direction common men and women joined first responders.at peril to their own lives,risked all to save others. On 9/11 the Nation mourns those who perished,it is also important to acknowledge the sense of duty of all those who thought not of self and aided others. Without a Unity of Command in those first hours there was a commonality of Purpose. It was ,I believe, another day in our Nations History when "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue". (I also called this in but would like to know if and when you play this request Thank you)
Gerard McEnerney
"The United Airlines Theme Song", Rhapsody in Blue By: Blue George Gershwin
The United Airlines Theme Song, Rhapsody in Blue By: Blue George Gershwin.
I was in remote Western China (Karakoram Mountains, K2) on 9/11, not learning about the WTC until 9/16. The UNITED AIRLINES flight, Chicago to Newark, had no words, no comprehension, no people.
Thank you, WNYC, for this music and Measuring Time. It is breath-taking.
C Palmer
"Music From Ground Zero", by Tim Tuttle
"Music from Ground Zero" was written by my husband. He's not a professional musician
( though he should be) . His office was right across the street from the WTC: I remember him calling me, puzzled after they heard about the first plane; and then his voice after he called the second time. He had seen the second plane right outside their window ; he saw so much that day. In the days that followed he found out he had lost many, many friends. He was just utterly crushed. A few nights later he picked up his guitar and he was singing so softly I could barely hear him. But it was beautiful. I don't think I had ever heard him sing, and he had never really written music before, though music was certainly his life force and he had been to hundreds of concerts. Somehow all this music that had been inside him came pouring out. The music was so good that some professional musicians found out about it and a band sort of coalesced; on the first anniversary they did a benefit at Tribeca Blues. My husband had never sung in public before. But this music was coming from so deep in his soul, and I think he had such a need to offer what he could give---- ( and he does have a great voice) --and the show was amazing. Since then they have done a benefit each year, at The Knitting Factory, and now at Mercury Lounge. I know it has helped in the healing of many, many people. And not only in NYC. One year a music teacher in ( very) rural Georgia came upon his website as a way for her kids to process what had happened and wrote to him; he ended up corresponding with all these wonderful eighth graders. And although he was opposed to the war, another year he sent CD;s to soldiers in Iraq, because so many of the songs dealt with the loss of friends. Later that year a soldier in uniform showed up at the Knitting Factory; all of his company had signed a flag for Tim to thank him.
I love this music because it is amazingly beautiful, and because it encapsulates for me what was the great light in the darkness of that day: despite all the sorrow and madness in this world, people have more beauty inside them than we can imagine. It came out in a million ways after 9/11; this is my husband's way.
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1213072097/88fc8741d39603ef75f9582400e351c0
( or I can send the link) Also at
www.musicfromgroundzero.org. Especially "Inside", "44 Lights" and "By Your Side".
Barbara Blackburn Tuttle
the doors
that`s what I was listening to on that day
norm blais
"Rest of My Days" by Indigenous
When my heart is broken, this song in particular, commiserates with my pain at first, then shares healing solace with me in the bittersweetness.
D Miller
Lacrimosa (mozart)
A correction to my previous submission.
Lisa Aschen
ghosts of love by nohman
It sums up emotions of that day
Tom
lycrimosa by beethoven and air for the g string
For me, both symbolize a passage and assention to another "place" where I imagine all those who passed on 9/11 safely rest, and will one day be rejoined by their families.
Lisa Aschen
"If" by Bread
This is a song of undying love. It never meant much to me as a teenager but when I heard it after learning the fate of Towers workers I broke down hearing the lyrics: "If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away."
Bob Miller
Waiting for Superman by the Flaming Lips
This song, released in 1999, was the one I turned to in the weeks after September 11, 2001. I'm not sure why, but I think it spoke to my hope that there would be some sort of magical force that would make everything better. For all the talk of collective action and national unity, I think part of me just wanted it to all go away.
Jody Avirgan
Yan Tiersen: Comptine D'été no 2 and Comptine D'un Autre Été
These pieces were used as the background music for a "Found Footage" project that my son Alex put together for a film class at RIT where he is a Motion Picture Science Major. The film can be found at: http://vimeo.com/4681652
At 11 years old, he was deeply affected by 9/11 when the office where I worked was destroyed. I had the fortune not to be there that day and even more so that everyone except one person that I worked with made it out safely that day.
Not a day goes by that I don't think of this event and the days and years that have followed: The effect it has had on my family and work life.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this with you and your listeners.
John Pagliaro
"Stay" by U2
For a few months after 9/11, I could only listen to sad music (and the news on WNYC). I found myself listening to this song on the morning of the 12th as I sat at my computer in my dorm room at Barnard, reading in thew New York Times about firefighters going up the stairs as everyone else went down. I'm from a town on Long Island that has a heavy FDNY/NYPD contingent, and that image has stuck with me ever since. A few songs became so strongly associated in my mind with 9/11 that I can only listen to them on or around the anniversary, and "Stay" is at the top of the list for reasons I can't completely articulate. Oddly enough, I couldn't bring myself to visit ground zero for almost two years after the day. I found myself walking by it accidentally-on-purpose on day in the summer of 2003 when I was an intern in Listener Services at WNYC. I don't know if I was ready yet, but when would I ever be?
Katy
Rahsaan Roland Kirk from THE RETURN OF THE 5000 LBS. MAN, "I'll Be Seeing You"
>> _/ /_ ...I'll be seeing you... ~>
Vic
