Patti Smith's "Elegie"
I saw Patti at the Bowery Ballroom on New Year's Eve after 9-11 and she read a moving poem about the events and then went right into "Elegie"- dedicated to the people we lost on that day. It was emotional and powerful.
Dan Springer
Hillary Stagg "Real Sanctuary"
It is beautiful, peaceful, healing,soothing, calming.
Carol Wilson
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
This Alan Jackson song perfectly describes the myriad of emotions and reactions of all Americans "on that September day." I still can't listen to it without tearing up in memory.
Joan C
Ghosts of Love by Nohman
This songs express a pain and an emotional trauma of the 9/11 event and
appeals us to protect world against evil arose in minds of men
Stanislav
Ghosts of Love by Nohman
A sadness , a hope , a anger!The song remember the terrible day to me...
Paul
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
This is one of the first songs that I heard after 9/11 happened and it brings back memories of what happened. By listening to this song, the healing can begin.
David Davidson
Rick Astley- Never gonna give you up!
This song has a special meaning if you really think about it. It goes beyond the simple fact that he loves this girl and is never going to give you up. He is talking about our world and our values as well. This is song should stand for America as we would never give up or let anyone down.
Noah
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
I heard your request for songs to play on 9/11/11 and this piece immediately came into my head. It gives me comfort and hope and it brings to mind the best America - a just society with respect and equal opportunity for all.
Sara
Largo from Dvorak's ninth symphony
This piece signifies the peace associated with this anniversary, and also the bustle and life of New York City. It also helps express the recovery of many people in the wake of 911.
Jan
Freedom Lives On by Mark Lambert
This song was written by a dear friend of mine in the hope that one day he could sing it as a tribulation to the families of 911. His idea was that the children of 911 could sing the chorus lines in the back ground. I hope you enjoy it like I do, one of my favorite songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflgkyvq5zk
Sunny Howe
Imagine by John Lennon
A startling and radical way of seeing a possible, peaceful future.
Diane DeLauro
Largo from Dvorak's ninth symphony
It to me signifies the peace and tranquility that is associated with this solemn anniversary.
Jan
Jay Z "Song Cry"
This track is from The Blue Print which was released on 9/11/01 I had brought it that morning. As I walked all around the city getting my kids safely home I listened to this CD over and over. It doesn't make me sad it reminds me of how we all got it together and did what we had to do for our friends and family.
The original is probably un-broadcastable! But there is a clean version too.
Oona
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's music has a regularity of patterns and musicality that convey for me stability and enduring optimism - a recipe for helping individuals and society deal with complexities and with the rough spots of life and events.
Frances Degen Horowitz
The Rising, Bruce Springsteen
I listened to this constantly in the year after 9/11. It was very cathartic for me. The album covers all the phases: confusion, loss, grief, anger, and ultimately, taking small steps towards finding a way forward, towards everyday happiness while never forgetting the past.
Janice
Ashes of American Flags - Wilco
From the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, "Ashes of Amercian Flags" by Wilco captured the post Sept 11th trauma & melancholy & sadness & disillusionment in music while the entire release offered some bit of comfort. It was released online a week after the Tuesday morning attacks, it unintentionally came to represent everything mentioned above plus more.
For me it is a marker of before and after innocence, before and after the attacks, before and after the smell working on Wall Street, before and after fear, before and after the birth of my first son (Aug 31) and the subsequent trauma of his hospitalizations after his birth and after the WTC dust clouds blew over us in Brooklyn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot
Dan Manco
Copland- The Promise of Living
I was only in the fourth grade when the attacks took place and as children often do I managed to somewhat grasp what my town ( a commuter suburb of New York) felt despite the fact that my understanding of the event was limited and filled my house with a constant stream of Copland and other American composers for the following weeks. Needless to say, not the average music tastes of a fourth grader.
S.W.A.
James Taylor's Hard Times Come Again No More from YoYoMa's Appalachian Journey album
I heard this in my car a few days after the tragedy, and I had to pull over, it overwhelmed me, and it was the first time I was able to cry.
Noreen Moore-Medlnick
