Measuring Time: Music for 9/11/11

September 09, 2011 02:46:01 PM
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Diamanda Galas, Schrei 27

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The yowl of pain, mourning and the subsequent inhumane treatement of the other

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monroe denton

September 09, 2011 02:28:10 PM
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American Patrol

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I first heard this great American song on a record by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies that they made around 1960. Danny Kaye played Nichols in a biopic, in which Nichols returned to music after a long hiatus brought on by the early death of his daughter. Better Nichols than Springsteen on 9/11, though the Boss has writtne some good songs.

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S. B. Romaine

September 09, 2011 12:29:10 PM
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American Tune by Paul Simon

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I was in Tower One, in my office on the 73rd floor the morning of 9/11/01. I was fortunate to survive and spend much of my time, thinking of those less fortunate than me, those of us that didn't make it out that day. I clearly remember fire fighters and first responders that entered into the building, passing me in the stairwell as they made their way up into the burning tower. I was pretty paralyzed during the days and weeks that followed. I recall watching Paul Simon in a memorial concert as he perform "Bridge over Troubled Water" and I told my wife Lisa that he should have performed his song "American Tune". The song selection seemed less appropriate and possibly an emotional and popular choice. The more obscure and anthemic "American Tune", in my opinion, would have been fitting providing possibly a certain unconventional perspective to the events. Maybe this is just the opinion of a survivor. My attitude and the attitude of many other survivors appears to be much more subdued than those of the families who lost loved ones (obviously and for good reason). Its also strikingly different than those who were invovled in the months of search, rescue and recovery. As a survivor, and you could argue that everyone in the country is a survivor (all touched by the tragic day), we eventually had to return to our lives. "American Tune" is sad, it seems to describe confusing and depressing images. I also hear in the song some realism and some optimism. It seems to infer that we will get through this. The song seems to reference the course of history, and suggests that still, we go about our daily lives, we go to work, we spend time with our families, we carry on. I can appreciate that.

Dave Matthews covers this song but there is nothing like the original.

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Jim Loudon

September 09, 2011 11:15:35 AM
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"Everyone Is Good"

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Here are the lyrics the The Roaches song "Everyone Is Good" (words and music by Terre Roche)

Everyone is good

I would like to be a person who does not judge
Free to be me whatever that might be
I don't want to hold a position, don't want to hold a grudge
'Cause it seems to be the cause of a lot of misunderstanding
Heartbreak misery

Looking in your eyes you're different from me
Why does it have to be that one of us is better
Can't we both be beautiful even if we don't agree
Like the flowers in the garden and the animals in the wood
Each one with a purpose and each one is gQod

Everyone is good

Nobody's God says hate your neighbor
Even if the neighbor doesn't believe in God
Put aside your religion do your God a favor
And wouldn't it be something to be Ioving and kind
Forgive yourself for everything having once been blind

Everyone is good

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Tom Silvino

September 09, 2011 10:46:26 AM
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"

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I think "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams would be a comforting way to remember the souls lost on 9/11/01...

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Tom Silvino

September 09, 2011 10:23:58 AM
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Songs by Anuna and by The Roaches

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I listened to the following songs repeatedly after 9/11/01. They comforted me. I wanted to send these songs to the 3000 souls lost that day. If you play them, maybe they'll hear...

Anuna: "Codail a Linbh" & "Agnus Dei"

The Roches: "Everyone Is Good Lyrics"

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Tom Silvino

September 09, 2011 03:08:52 AM
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Tom Waits from FRANKS WILD YEARS, "Straight To The Top (Rhumba)"

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_____ .... > > . < <... _____

( I'll Take New York )

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Vic

September 09, 2011 02:25:25 AM
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Tom Waits from THE BLACK RIDER, "The Black Rider"

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______> >__ . __< <______

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Vic

September 09, 2011 12:53:17 AM
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Symphony of Sorrows (Gorecki)

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This piece came to mind on the first night after 9/11 as the city dimmed its lights, creating a haunted and surreal experience as experienced in the second movement.

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SK

September 09, 2011 12:52:03 AM
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Pavane for a Dead Princess

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I rediscovered this piece in 2002 right around the anniversary of the attack when the World Trade Center was still a void. It also brought to mind of how it seemed that the City was calling to the heavens when lighting those beams of light.

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SK

September 09, 2011 12:50:28 AM
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Firebird

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When I first heard the Firebird in 1994, I imaged a ship battling a storm and coming out tattered but triumphant. In 2001, I took this theme again to depict the first week after 9/11 (with the beginning of the final dance depicting the Empire State Building illuminated in Red, White and Blue and the lighting of the Tribute in Light) and how a city and a country rebounded in the face of unprecedented adversity (afternote: it wasn't until 2008 when I saw the piece's treatment in Fantasia 2000)

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SK

September 08, 2011 09:44:58 PM
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Commemoration, by Robert Wendel

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I first heard this on the 2006 PBS broadcast of the National Memorial Day Concert for their segment on the opening of the WW2 monument. I immediately thought of 9/11. I got it on iTunes recently, and it's as moving as I remembered it to be.

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Zach

September 08, 2011 08:49:33 PM
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"Stuck in a Moment" - U2

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All the tracks from "All That You Can't Leave Behind" were very popular in September 2001. I was a senior in high school and remember playing this CD and obsessively checking the news.

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Amy

September 08, 2011 05:34:00 PM
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Amanda Lear's "I am a photograph"

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The music that I associate with 9-11 is "I am a photograph" by Amanda Lear. I'm an artist and I make visual art about ethereal experiences, often about the experience of listening to music. In the spring of 2001 I was asked to be in a group show in Belgium called "Not A Lear" I was asked to submit a piece that in some way referenced the Euro-disco celebrity Amanda Lear. That was easy, since she was the cover star of The Second Roxy Music album "For Your Pleasure" and Roxy Music was my favorite band. Then the show traveled to the U.S. for a stop at Gracie Mansion Gallery, my piece , however was broken in transit so I was asked to submit a new piece for the NYC version of the show, opening on September 11 2001. The curator Jimi Dams and I agreed on a painting of a movie marquee with a Roxy Music song title on it which I was to deliver in the late morning of september 11. After the events of that morning I forgot about my commitment to bring the painting by and got a call at 1 pm from the gallery's director Sir Rodney Sir asking where was with the painting.....I was shocked as I didn't think the show would go on and open that night but Sir Rodney insisted it would so I got on my bike, put the painting under my arm and rode up to chelsea. I passed through the smokey west village and saw the office workers leaving on foot, walking away from ground zero and I got to chelsea and delivered the painting. Sir Rodney asked me to stay for the opening, I said I wasn't really in the mood but I might stop back later, Rodney said "Please return, Amanda's coming" . So I went home, cleaned up and headed back up to chelsea. By the time I got there, 7:45, there was no-one there but Sir Rodney, Amanda had come and gone and I was the only other person that showed up. I had a martini then left. Now everytime I think of 9-11 I think of Amanda Lear so I'm working on a piece to commemorate that ethereal experience based on Amanda Lear's "I am a photograph"

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Erik Hanson

September 08, 2011 02:14:14 PM
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Riverside Cathedral Memorial service that took place a few days after 9/11

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This was the most moving tribute to what had happened. Unfortunately, while it was broadcast on PBS, neither they nor Riverside Cathedral has any plans, that I know of, to re-air it or allow us to see it again. The music included some Islamic oud and prayers as well as Come Sunday (Count Basie)! Wish I could hear it again.

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John L

September 08, 2011 01:35:30 PM
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The End - John Powell, United 93

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It's such a beautiful restrained piece from John Powell. By far the first piece real piece of film music to deal with those kinds of issues. As a film music fan, these issues are always contended in the public circuit because people question whether it's appropriate to even make something in film out of that part of history, but it's my way of relating to the situation having lived in New York at the time. You could see the dust clouds from a small bridge in the town across the river. It was truly something to behold. I always think of this piece when I went back there.

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Adam Smith

September 08, 2011 12:52:37 PM
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Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaugh Williams

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I sang this in college, and now even more this piece gives me a visceral reaction to the horrors of war, the sadness of death, but through it all a hope for peace.

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Stacey

September 08, 2011 10:56:09 AM
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The Rising (the album in its entirety)

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The music from Springsteen's 'The Rising" was for me a vehicle through which I experienced a feeling of desperately needed bonding with my fellow humans, an experience of catharsis around the amorphous anger for what had been done and lives lost, an opportunity for gratitude for the impossible bravery shown and when all is said and done....a feeling of calm, persistent, passionate prayer (although I'm not particularly religious) that made me feel as though I could make a difference in some cosmic way.

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Susan Schachter

September 08, 2011 07:39:14 AM
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Simple Gifts from Aaron Copeland's Applachian Spring

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Simple Gifts is a reflection on what few things we need to be happy in life. In it I also hear forgiveness and the resilience of the human spirit. It also reminds me that while mankind can create horrific destruction like 9/11, it can also create beautiful things like this piece of music. As I fly off to Afghanistan this Sunday to work on a US-funded youth leadership program, I will carry this song with me, and know that you are playing it back home. Thanks!

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Tom Toomey

September 08, 2011 07:19:24 AM
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Procol Harum, LIVE In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, "A Salty Dog"

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"'All hands on deck, we've run afloat!' I heard the
captain cry 'Explore the ship, replace the cook:
let no one leave alive!' Across the straits,
around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A
twisted path, our tortured course, and no one left
alive
We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships
come home to die No lofty peak, nor fortress bold,
could match our captain's eye Upon the seventh
seasick day we made our port of call A sand so
white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all

We fired the gun, and burnt the mast, and rowed
from ship to shore The captain cried, we sailors
wept: our tears were tears of joy Now many moons
and many Junes have passed since we made land A
salty dog, this seaman's log: your witness my own
hand"

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Vic