"I WILL BE STRONG" by Rosalie Login,
I wanted to offer a message of hope and healing to all those that survived that day, especially the families of the ones that passed, and the many heroes that tried to save them. WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0munF4KDF0
Rosalie Login
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pie Jesu
When I first heard this piece long after the attacks, I quickly imaged the void felt in the city where I was born and raised (I am now in Washington). Not only was it of the rubble and rescue and recovery, but also of the emptiness of the World Trade Center site. This piece perhaps embodies what we have all felt in the wake of the attacks...
SK
jani seiber
Prayer
Hidden sky 2001.
Appropriate.
john traub
"The Rich Song" by Caedmon's Call
After 9/11, I gradually lost my faith. But before then, I was a Christian and intent on being a good one. In fact, the person I knew who died on 9/11 was someone from church and he was an enormous source of inspiration for me and a lot of other people. But I, unlike those other people, was unable to say things like "He's in heaven." These people were the only people I knew who also knew him and because they were saying things I would never be able to understand or say myself, I felt very isolated. This song, although it has some lyrics that I still don't identify with, was the only source of comfort for me after 9/11, not only because the lyrics show that Christians can doubt God but also because it made me feel I could communicate everything I was (and still am) feeling with Andy directly, wherever he may be. Maybe this piece, The Rich Song by Caedmon's Call, can be a source of comfort for someone else too:
"Whatcha been doing today?
'Cause I've been thinking about you
Just heard some news that set my mind to wandering...And I need to hear your voice..
Cause we miss you
Do you miss us?
What is the language
With which these words I can trust?
That I thank my God
Every time I remember you
Whatcha been thinking about?
Cuz I've been thinking about life
And how nothing can escape the governing of God...
Still somehow that just doesn't comfort me tonight...
I still need to hear your voice
Now I hear you
Do you hear me?
What medium is there
That I can use to make you see?
That I thank my God
Every time I remember you"
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Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen). Antony & the Johnsons.
Transcendence.
Marilyn
Halleluj Antony & the Johnsons
Transcendence.
Marilyn
Walk On by U2
It was one of the first songs I heard right after the whole damn thing happened. It spoke to me of getting back up and keeping walking.
Crystal
Ashokan Farewell
I find this song very peaceful
Sarah
U2's Walk On
This song has become sort of the unofficial anthem for those of us who live in the aftermath of 9/11. It breaks your heart yet gives you courage to heal.
Lisa B.
Live- "Overcome"
It was eerie when I realized this song had nothing to do with the events of 9/11 because it summed up everything I felt.
Brian
Gev Sweeney
I spent the morning with co-workers who had relatives in Washington and in the Twin Towers. I think, of most of the music I've heard on the MT playlist, the old Sacred Harp song Idumea captures the range of emotions we all went through as we watched the attacks and realised the consequences: terror, the prospect of death, sorrow, the desire to fight back, the promise of vengeance and triumph, the despair of finality.
Gev Sweeney
"Plenty of music" New York Dolls One day...
My wife & I (lifelong New Yorkers) were on our way moving from Philadelphia, where we lived for 15 months, back home, to Brooklyn. We bought "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This" By The New York Dolls a couple of weeks before we left in August 2006; it was our welcome back home drive music. Hearing it that first time it had a vibe that we agreed had a September 11th feel to it & we associated it as such.
In June of 2000 my wife & I, both lifelong Brooklynites, moved downtown (we called it Trinity) to Greenwich & Carlisle Streets & took advantage of all that the neighborhood had to offer, especially the "River to River" festival: salsa bands and NRBQ in the Tobin Plaza & a show in Clinton Castle with David Johansen who was performing his Harry Smith material. After a song, he paused and took out a camera (probably a new digital) and he took a photo. I turned around to see what might be in his view finder & saw the twin towers. I later read he was a downtown resident. I don't know what was on his or Sylvain's (his writing partner) mind, but to me “Plenty of Music is a September 11 song.
george 110 greenwich street
The Walls Came Down/The Call
It used to mean to me... that the Berlin Wall came down. Signaling the end of oppression and tyranny. Now it seems like the beginning of another religious war. So sad.
PT
Quatour pour la fin du temps, by Olivier Messiaen
It is both apocalyptic and transcendent.
Fred
Paul Simon - American Tune
I listened to a musician play this song at the Union Square memorials a few days after 9/11. A few people sang along, though not many knew all the words. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed a bit melancholy a song for the shellshocked and reactionary time immediately after 9/11. However now that ten years have passed it seems much more appropriate for the times. Thanks.
Chris Cummings
Sacred Place & Rescue by Tony Noe
Heartfelt & appropriate for this soundtrack.
Listen: http://registry.national911memorial.org/view_artist.php?aid=1309
N.N.
