Jennifer Hegdon, Libby Larsen and Ellen Taafe Zwilich
These are all prestigious composers and should be played in honor of the women and men who died on that dreadful day.
Dorothy Indenbaum, Ph.D
sept 11 composition.
a cd and sheet music was mailed to your
station on aug the 8th 2011.
this composition by Harry Bialor is very personal and Autobiographical.
Rosalind Bialor
ROSALIND BIALOR
Ravel's Le Tombeau De Couperin
In the days and weeks following those tragic events of 09/11/01,it became clear that most of those who perished were in the prime of their lives. The comments of family members and friends were heartfelt and moving in the telling of how vibrant and bright these unfortunate human beings really were. I then thought of the comment Maurice Ravel,the French composer, made when he was asked "Why his piano piece 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' was so light and joyous,when it was actually an elegy written to commemorate the deaths of Ravel's friends who died in WWI. Ravel replied "the dead are sad enough in their eternal silence" And so we must remember the dead of 09/11/01 as they were and we are as but shadows of those who have gone before. b
Jim O'Shea
Give Peace a Chance
The war against Al Queda hasn't worked - any more than the Civil War, The Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, on and on and on.....hundreds of thousands of lives lost.
All we are saying, is Give Peace a Chance.
Patricia L. Mulvey
There Are No Words
I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan and folksinger Christine Lavin suggested I contact you. I wrote a song on 9/11/2001 called 'There Are No Words' that quickly went around the country and the UK. I've rec'd a Michigan Emmy for it as well as having it used in a documentary on the Pentagon 9/11 experience, which led to performing it live at the dedication of the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. I'm sure that I should sing it for the nation somewhere on this 10th anniversary and was told that I was at the head of the list by the music decision-makers at City Hall, until they decided to go with someone else. I'm very disappointed but I'm not giving up! If you can go to my website - www.kittydonohoe.com - you can find a link at the home pg to video's of the song. thank you!!
Kitty Donohoe (734)973-2998
http://www.kittydonohoe.com
Kitty Donohoe
Haydn - Mass in Time of War
This piece resonates for me since this country is still engaged in two wars, at least one of which, although some claim both, which is(are) the direct result of the 9/11 attack
Stephen Z. Goldberg
second movement Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
At the High School of Music and Art, the death of FDR, in April of 1945, was marked by an all-school assembly at which the Senior Orchestra played--not the Eroica--but the Seventh, music that spoke movingly to an audience of kids who had known no other president in their lifetime. It was unforgettable, and it marked that piece of music for me unforgettably forever after.
Naomi Lipman
Oliver Messiaen's "The End of the World" and Cameron Carpenter playing "Stars and Stripes"
If I remember correctly, 9/11/01 was a Tuesday. On the Thursday before, Oliver Messaien's "The End of the World" was performed on the old organ at Trinity Church. I attended that concert, having taken a PATH train and crossed through the Twin Towers central plaza with its globe where a country ang western concert was in progress. Dust from 9/11 destroyed the old organ. Trinity now has a new computer console organ. Cameron Carpenter, who was very involved with the creation of the new organ, played his rendition of "Stars and Stripes" at a June 2007 concert I attended.
Barbara Ackerman
"What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?"
This song was performed at the first concert that I attended after 9/11. For me it symbolizes the inappropriateness of our military responses to this attack by self-appointed guerilla forces. Better we should have been asking why people are lining up to die to kill Americans and how we can or should change our behavior. Instead we found ways to kill people who had nothing to do with the event and create additional motivation for future attacks.
Richard Hall
Lieutenant Kije Suite by Prokofiev
This classic, timeless work describes an entire lifetime through the use of musical themes. It is an amazing piece that I have loved since Junior High School. Definitely worth a listen and wothy of play.
Kathi Foster
Tears In Heaven, by Eric Clapton
This beautiful song is especially more poignant when one remembers that Clapton wrote this after the tragic death of his young son. In New York City, the young boy fell from an open window in the apartment.
Kathi Foster
Firefighter Anthem for Sept. 11 Ten-Year Anniversary
Hello friends. I've created a music video tribute of one of my songs, "I will respond," that is a sort of firefighter anthem. I hope you enjoy it and see fit to play it. It has already comforted a great number of people. You can listen and view it here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN0DHsAscA
or better yet, here on Facebook, where I've created a "fan" page for the ten-year anniversary: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Firefighter-Anthem-for-Sept-11-Ten-Year-Anniversary/137494429670693?sk=app_109143699111405
You can also download the MP3 there, which may be more conducive to your playing format at the station.
Thank you!
Dom
Dom Crincoli
John Denver music
His music was pure, freeing and almost spiritual. I don't know why his music came to mind immediately upon hearing your request, but it did. I don't own a John Denver album presently, but as a young teenager in the 70s his music was comforting and beautiful and pure. Though I personally did not loose anyone in the 9/11 attacks, the lose is felt regardless. I would want those most deeply affected by the tragedy to feel comforted and almost "freed" from their pain and grief.
Linda U.
Barber adagio for Strings
spiritual, american, about sadness, and recovery
karen Golden
Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss
The last eight minutes of this piece gives such hope to me when I listen to it. It is about the soul rising up to heaven with glorious thunder and then the peace of reaching the final destination. To me for 9/11 it reflects a country and a city rising from the disaster of 9/11 to hopefully a better place.
Joe Vance
Dana Fuchs " Moment away "
A pleasant moment
Italo Presil
Towers of Light by Robert Wendel
Just listen to it!
Blanca Vallejo
Ghosts of Love by Nohman
This song does not strike the same familiar chord like some of the very good but much more mass market songs but that is why it has so much meaning for me. While much consideration has been given to the "us" aspect of our collective pain from 9/11, this song pays homage to the irretrievable loss experienced on a more individual level by survivors or relatives of those lost that day. I think that is very much worth remembering on 9/11.
Craig Bodner
My Friend Peter's Playlist
My friend Peter Shelton is a Brit who'd lived here for 20 years on Sept 11, 2001. Like people from many other countries who live here, he remarked on how lucky we Americans were that terrorist attacks, whether home grown or foreign, had been so rare in our country. Not that he wasn't sympathetic - after all New York is his adopted home where he's raised two boys and earned a living as a freelance video editor.
Two days after the attack he dropped off a CD, which he called Life During Wartime (NYC Sept 2001), with the following songs. They evoke so many of the roiling emotions from that time. It's great to listen to. See what you think:
-In My Life/The Beatles
-Times Have Changed/Bob Dylan
-Don't Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me/Charles Mingus
-Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Chet Baker
-Hymn #5/Earl Gaines
-Anything Goes/Ella Fitzgerald'
-Blue Skies/Ella Fitzgerald
-Castles Made of Sand/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
-A Love Supreme/John Coltrane
-Rough God Goes Riding/Van Morrison
Robin White Owen
