ghosts of love by Nohman
It speaks to the heartache of senseless acts of terrorism.
tony deluca
Brahams Deutches Requiem
It is sublime. I remember hearing it on WQXR shortly after the 9/11 disaster. I would appreciate it very much if you would play it in its entirety on 9/11/11. Thank you.
Susan Grossman
battle hymn of the replublic
i find it supremely uplifting.
Barbara
Holly Near's "I Ain't Afraid" perhaps the powerful version by The Klezmatics
It is just a powerful statement in response to both 9/11 and so much else today. I think it also says a lot that it is performed by a Jewish band playing Jewish music.
Sid Kivanoski
Consecration of the House overture
This is probably the best way to celebrate the loss of the old and the rebuilding of the new World Trade Towers.
Bob Streisand
Heroes by David Bowie
This is the only song that popped into my head when I heard the request for suggestions. The line "We can be heroes..just for one day" is very descriptive of what took place. So many people both life-saving professionals and lay people became heroes that day. I'd be pleased if some of those 9/11 heroes who survived and the loved ones left behind by those heroes who didn't survive can hear "Heroes" played on WNYC.
Mrs. Miriam Green
Hungry Blues; Ruby Smith
The same as I said earlier, but then "Hungry Blues" didn't show up on the listing.
lewis meyers
Bach: Cello Suites
For several days after the Towers went down I found myself listening to nothing but the Bach cello suites. Like many New Yorkers I had fallen into a deep funk. I worked near the WTC and knew a few people there who did not survive. At that time I thought of the attack as a supreme act of barbarity. The cello suites seemed to counteract this as being supremely civilized.
Joe R
ralph vaughan williams...lark ascending
hope...peace...
the bittersweet serenity of looking above the dust and doom to a clear blue sky, for hope, renewal, the joy of tomorrow. the miracle that life does go on.. and begins again with each new breath we have, for every new child that is born.
and all life lived, for long or short, is a song sung forever, heard,remembered by all who remain when you leave. for each sweet soul ascended on september morn, may this song send you our remembrance .. hope .. and .. peace.
beverly joy
THE LOST CHORD
It just says it all for me; music and lyrics.
The Lost Chord
Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan;
words by Adelaide Anne Proctor
Song Lyrics
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wander'd idly over the noisy keys;
I knew not what I was playing, or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight like the close of an Angel's Psalm,
And it lay on my fever'd spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife,
It seem'd the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
It link'd all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace
And trembled away into silence as if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly, that one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ and enter'd into mine.
It may be that Death's bright Angel will speak in that chord again;
It may be that only in Heav'n I shall hear that grand Amen!
Florence Eichin
Trapeze, by Kati Mac
This choice is not primarily personal; it is a tribute written by the artist.
Andy Sugerman
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
This hip-hop album came out just a few months before 9/11, but it conjured a bleak grey soundscape that seemed to foretell what was to come. In the grim aftermath, tracks like "Iron Galaxy" and "Pigeon" captured the city's collective grit during this time. I remember walking the streets of NYC for hours at a time with this as the perfect soundtrack.
DJ
A Heart in New York by Art Garfunkle
It’s the sweetest valentine of a song for our city. It represents the NYC like no other song.
Matt
Testament's "The Evil Has Landed"
It deals with the tragic events of 9-11 in a very concrete and specific way (though it's quite emotionally tone-deaf). I guarantee that no other suggestion sounds quite like this.
Nate in Queens
Purcell, "Music for a While"
The text of this poem says it all: "music for a while will all your cares beguile."
Michael Southwell
The Second Symphony of the Portuguese composer Jose Manuel Joly Braga Santos.
I frankly do not know. I heard it for the first time broadcast the weekend after 9/11. It literally made me stop what I was doing, sit down, and listen to the very end. Perhaps I needed that. Call it program music if you like. Listen and judge for yourselves...
John C. Fraraccio
Boulder to Birmingham
It's an incredibly sad song about loss and what one person would do for another even if it can't really matter anymore. It's Dolly Parton's song but Emmylou Harris' version is better for 9/11 because her voice IS heartbreak and redemption.
Merryl
Meditation de Thais by Jules Massenet
It is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know--poignant and transcendent, fitting for such a solemn anniversary, but with a feeling of hope.
BTW, just wondering why the Stones' "Monkey Man" is in the background of one of the promos...seems very odd!
Patty Esch
Find The Cost of Freedom CSN
As I left Bayonne NJ(on 9-11-01) while driving over the Turnpike Bridge, I was thinking of this song as I looked in my rear-view mirror. A very short, simple & somber song, it makes me very reflective about that day.
Rich Roberts
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" by Bob Dylan, "New York, New York" by Ryan Adams, "Blue Skies" by Noah and the Whale
I remember hearing "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" on the radio in New York on the afternoon of 9/11/01. It is appropriate and brings back memories of that day. "New York, New York" by Ryan Adams with the lyrics "I still love you New York" became popular with a lot of people after 9/11. And "Blue Skies" is a song about moving on from hard times.
Elizabeth
