Bach:Well Tempered Clavier, Book1, Csharp minor, F minor, Book 2 C sharp minor, F sharp minor, F minor , Book2 lavier by pianist Evelyne Crochet
I don't know any other music as noble as the WTC.
It brings peace in sorrow. That recording is beautiful.
Stangely, it has the same initials as the WTC.
Tierney Davis
Beetovan's Fifth & Sixth Symphonies
It was just two Saturdays after the attacks on the WTC on 9/11 that my husband and I attended a concert at Carnegie Hall. Claudio Abbato conducted the Berlin Philharmic. Under the circumstances, It was decided that the program was to be changed to Beethovan's 5th & 6th Symphonies. The performance by the Berlin Philharmonic was extremely moving. It felt like the Orchestra was trying to console the audience. It was incredibly moving. There's probably no recording of that particular performance, but maybe the Berlin Philharmonic has recorded those symphanies. Either way, I'd like to hear those pieces on 9/11. Thank you.
Susannah Strazzera
Bruce Springsteen- "The Rising"
The great American balladeer captured the mood and emotions of the region and the country with this album. Like nothing else, this is the quintessential post-9/11 collection that captures our collective sense of loss, our despair, our fears, the need for vengance and even a sliver of hope.
David
Ghosts of Love
Brings out the spiritual sadness of theday
Carmelo Pulex
Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland
The people who lost their lives - especially the 347 NYC firegfighters - are emblematic of the every day person who were victims of this atrocious terrorist attack. This piece has the sound and feel of the every day person, cut down without reason, yet rising up out of the rubble so that civilization continues. They are us and we are they.
David & Jocelyn Blood
The Rising by Bruce Springsteen
"Empty Sky", "Missing", "The Rising"...it was the first CD I bought after the attacks. I listened to it on our fist vacation after the attacks in August of 2002. It helped me cry, so I could begin to heal.
Mark D. Ransom
Schubert: The Unfinished Symphony
I was in one of the smaller World Trade buildings at the time and I still very much think of all the unfinished lives for all victims of the tragedy. I think that Shubert's Unfinished Symphony is very solemn and appropriate.
Thank you
Richard Michalowski
fanfare for the common man or the whole symphony
Aaron Copland is one of he premier US composers who wrote music for everyone in an American theme and the extract from the symphony evokes, for me, the American can do spirit.
William Moss
Cole Porter's "I Happen to Like New York," sung by Donna Murphy
After 9/11, I walked along 7th Avenue, south of St. Vincent's Hospital, and read the notes people had posted, describing the loved ones they were seeking but would never find. I cried for them, but also for New York, my hometown: the fallen achingly evoked on the tattered sheets of paper included bus boys and bankers, people of *every* race and sexual orientation, seniors, young parents, and people newly arrived to chase their dreams in New York. That's why 9/11 felt like an attack on the city: it was an assault not on any particular group, but on the wholeness that I experience as unique to New York -- whose inhabitants stay precisely because we wouldn't want to live apart from one another. I heard this song on NPR shortly after 9/11, and on top of the fact that I happen to like Donna Murphy, the song's aspirational confidence and grittiness made me hope that we could draw strength from New York's wholeness, so that we might one day leave off crying.
Talcott Camp
Alphabet of the Dead - find this sound work on You Tube
It honors those lost through a meditative sound poem/rap and reminds me of how we can be in the future as we remember the past.
by Mary Crescenzo and Steven Worthy
Mary Crescenzo
BeethOven Symphony 7 Movement 2
(auto correct typos corrected!) The horror of the 911 attacks was incomprehensible to me. Although I did not know anyone harmed in the attacks, the pall that pervaded all of my actions and interactions, and my highly disturbed sleep continued for quite some time. I remembered the Beethoven Symphony 7 Movement 2 and listened to it frequently; in part as a funeral dirge, and in part as a reminder that New York and the USA would prevail over evil actions.
Judy Kolva
somewhere over the rainbow-eva cassidy
Since i was a child i felt this song signified hope - which is what i believe we as humans cannot go on without when faced such tragedies as 9/11.
danielle Jensen
Beethoven symphony 7 movement 2
The horror of the 911 attacks was incomprehensible to me. Although I did not know anyone harmed in the attacks, the pall that pervaded all of my actions and interactions, and my highly disturbed sleep continued fir quite some time.
I remembered the Beethoven symphony 7 movement 2 and listened to it frequently; in part as a funeral surge, and in part as a reminder that New York and the USA would prevail over evil actions.
Judy Kolva
Yusef Lateef from HUSH 'N' THUNDER, "Come Sunday"
For the time when you lay your burdens down, a moment for reflection, "Come Sunday".
Vic
At Last I Am Free, by ROBERT WYATT
I used to take the PATH train daily into the WTC from downtown Jersey City, and spent many mornings in the coffee shop there, watching the businesspeople and tourists before boarding the uptown 1,9 train at the destroyed Cortland Street station. Once PATH service to the WTC was restored (I don't know how long that took) I still waited a long time before going there. (During this time I also started sitting in either the front or back car of the train and wearing secure shoes so I'd be ready to run for my life if necessary.) When I finally took the WTC train I was so nervous; as we screechingly approached the site and I saw the retaining wall this was the song that came on my ipod and it made the experience incredibly potent.
Moose
ghosts of love by nohman
it really takes me back to the day of the towers coming down and the shock and horror and the realisation that the world would never be the same again.
steve howard
Jethro Tull from AQUALUNG, "My God" + "Hymn 43"
(((( blowntodust)))))
Vic
Jethro Tull from AQUALUNG,
Busy with your money games...
Crashed & Blown ! > >_||__...
& The Powder Blast Rushing Down
At Near Free Fall Speed
(((('|'))))
Vic
Gavin Bryars, (Alter Ego_Philip Jeck) "The Sinking Of The Titanic (1969-)
~ or please play the recording of this piece that was made that night last April 14th (Thursday) at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC..."The Sinking Of The Titanic", Broadcast LIVE on Q2 ~ With Brancusi's sculpted Muse (1912) there, alight, as a witness to this tragic episode in the "GREAT UPHEAVAL".
Vic
Rise, by Brian O'Neill
Someone played this song for me and told me that the songwriter / singer had written it the day after 9/11. I wish I had heard it then, I think it's a beautiful response.
Tracy Kahley
