Ashokan Farewell

I went to a flute lesson on Sept 11 after work had let us go and attending a mass at St. Paul's Cathedral and singing next to a Met Opera chorus member in the pew. At the flute lesson was a young talented flutist who couldn't play her lesson. I was an adult beginner and I told her about the song I was working on and asked her to play it with me. I told her music was needed more now than ever and if we gave it up, we would have let the ones who had wounded our city win. In times of tragedy music brings comfort like few things can. Ashokan Farewell was a farewell to those who had died in another war but still reminds me of Sept 11's heroes and victims and families anytime I hear or play it.

Dorothea Brady