I Will Be Strong by Rosalie Login
I recently found this song on Youtube which is a beautiful 9/11 tribute. It was so moving that I immediately downloaded it onto my iPod from iTunes. I think it would be a beautiful song to share on 9/11.
Daniel Banches
the song, "morning has broken," by cat stevens
just moments after 9/11 occurred, i was at my small quaker elementary school in connecticut, writing prose about world peace and drawing serene pictures of a nearby creek. it wasn't until later that i found out that my dad had been in the attacks... and i thank the universe every day that he made it out alive. he ran and kept running and never looked back.
eventually, a service was held at the quaker meeting house at my school in honor of 9/11, and we sang this song, "morning has broken", as a congregation, a family united in tragedy. i still remember looking over at my dad, cripled with tears in my mother's arms, and to this day i can't listen to the song without remembering 9/11 and crying out of gratuity because my father is still alive when so many others were lost, and crying out of grief for all of the innocent mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and friends that america lost that day.
Anna
Bunita Marcus' Adam and Eve
It is a work about love and the need to bring understanding to all relationships. This is something we really need in our world today.
Marie Postlewate
Copeland, Fanfare for the Common Man
It's about everything that's good and right with America. So many ordinary Americans acted bravely and decently on 9/11 and afterwards; we came together as a nation. In our tragedy, there was an opportunity for the country to rise above our differences and focus on what values we all share. We've very obviously lost that now. Where did our sense of common purpose go?
Felice Whittum
Ralph Vaughn Williams "Dona Nobis Pacem"
This piece, which sets Walt Whitman texts to music as well as certain Biblical verses, is very meanigful to me because I have sung it as a chorister and because it conveys a deep yearning for peace.
Steven Lanser
Bernstein's Chitchester Psalms
The composition itself ultimately speaks of renewal, of new beginnings. Its elegiac strains are profound and the work has a magnificence that this anniversary calls for.
The person and works of Leonard Bernstein are so integrally woven into the tapestry that is New York that the inclusion of his music is an imperative in observing this significant event.
Elizabeth Sadoff
Finlandia
It is an affirmation that our country is part of the entire world. While the USA is special to us, other countries have skies so blue. WHile god blesses us, god blesses all.
Rona Solomon
2nd movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony
Symphony #5, New World, was written by Dvorak while he was living in Iowa for a year. The 2nd movement is lovely, quiet, calming and comforting. It can seem like a funeral dirge, or a loving embrace. I am an international Flight Attendant. The attacks of Sept 11 were devastating for me and to all of us at work. I cannot call in these comments; the tears are still flowing too easily. This loving music, written in the heartland of the US, is sent as a loving tribute to the Flight Attendants whose throats were slit by terrorists that fatefull day. Those Flight Attendants, working in the aisles of those 3 aircraft taking care of passengers, were the first Heros of 9/11. They deserve more recognition.
Leslie Ann
The Requiem by Andrew Webber
I find it meditative and soothing. Brings to me reverence, tranquility and peace at heart.
Mary Weeks
Henrik Gorecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
It is haunting, prayerful, it encompasses for me, the sadness of this day. We all know life goes on despite terrible tradigies, however, we must always acknowledge and remember what happened in order to move forward.
Lorraine Connor
Barber Adagio for Strings
I was a sophomore in college on 9/11, and I remember almost everything about that day. The music department at my college put together a memorial concert within the next week or two, and this piece was the contribution of the University Symphony Orchestra. It was incredibly emotional, and I'll never forget it.
Heather
Leonard Cohen's "The Land Of Plenty"
"The Land Of Plenty"
Don’t really know who sent me
To raise my voice and say:
May the lights in The Land of Plenty
Shine on the truth some day.
I don’t know why I come here,
Knowing as I do,
What you really think of me,
What I really think of you.
For the millions in a prison,
That wealth has set apart –
For the Christ who has not risen,
From the caverns of the heart –
For the innermost decision,
That we cannot but obey -
For what’s left of our religion,
I lift my voice and pray:
May the lights in The Land of Plenty
Shine on the truth some day.
I know I said I’d meet you,
I’d meet you at the store,
But I can’t buy it, baby.
I can’t buy it anymore.
And I don’t really know who sent me,
To raise my voice and say:
May the lights in The Land of Plenty
Shine on the truth some day.
I don’t know why I come here,
knowing as I do,
what you really think of me,
what I really think of you.
For the innermost decision
That we cannot but obey
For what’s left of our religion
I lift my voice and pray:
May the lights in The Land of Plenty
Shine on the truth some day.
It is my understanding that this was released the week before 9/11/01. It still sends shivers up my spine. While some could interpret this as blaming the U.S., the fact that it was written well before the attacks leads one to a deeper appreciation for the song and the music behind it. One of Cohen's many masterpieces.
Mightyfieldofvision
The Who from, TOMMY, "Underture"
> >__| |_...
It's a mystery
Vic
YES from, CLOSE TO THE EDGE, "Close To The Edge"
Yes, & play all 4 parts....
< Close To The Edge >
"I get up, I get down..."
Vic
Yusef Lateef from, CRY! TENDER, "Cry! Tender"
Cry! Tender... > >__| |_...
Vic
Van Morrison, Real Real Gone
I worked for my father at his restaurant, Due South, in Tribeca when the WTC was attacked. On Monday nights, we usually played quieter music (The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, and the like). Since the radio wasn't turned on on Tuesday (9/11) the disc player was set for Van Morrison's Greatest Hits Volume 2. My father, then boyfriend (now husband), and myself arrived at work around 8:00 on Wednesday morning to begin cooking and getting food out to the people working twelve blocks south of us on the pile. We only did free takeout--no one could buy a drink or a meal those first few days.
Anyway, ten years later, the opening bars of Real Real Gone still send shivers up my spine. We chose not to turn the TV on (actually, my Dad banned it saying that we had a close enough view of it) and just listened to music and packed boxes. When I could, I chain smoked.
My dad and I were talking about that time about a week ago. We talked about the music of the time. We talked about some of the random and grim laughs we had. We talked about the six month hangover that everyone (including ourselves) seemed to have. There are days when I cannot believe that it's been ten years. But I can measure that time with personal milestones: I gave up smoking. I don't drink nearly as much as I did in those horrible days after 9/11. I married my boyfriend. We are expecting our third child.
Thanks.
Erin Haas
"Tuesday" by Amy Fairchild
I can think of no better song.
Doug Brown
Kingdom Come by Judy Collins
This song was written as a tribute to the firefighters who gave their lives on that day, one of whom was our soccer coach's brother and a father of four. RIP
maureen campbell
Ralph Vaughn Williams, The Lark Ascending
This song makes me think of the spirits of so many people that were released on that day, each taken from us all too soon.
Jeffrey P Koskulics
