Keep Your Hand on the Plow, Mahalia Jackson; Ralph Vaughn Williams, Lark Ascending
Sixty-plus years ago, when I was just another white kid from Brooklyn, a friend introduced me to gospel. Later, as a young woman starting out in the Big City and needing all the encouragement I could get, I heard Mahalia Jackson on an old LP singing and exhortng us to hold on. She may have been the only one at the time to record "Hold On to the Plow," and through all these years, when I need spiritual strength, I turn to it and her. My original record is long gone, but I've replaced it. Similarly, when I seek solace, peace, and hope, I play Ralph Vaughn William's "Lark Ascending." Totally different, of course, but both these selections encouage me to look forward.
Ms. Gerry Gould
TRAFFIC from Shoot out at the fantasy factory_"Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory" + "Tragic Magic" + "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired"
It's more about what's going on today ~ Recent news of the World Trade Center's project budget oVeRRuN$...& the Port Authority's response, & proposal scam to drastically raise the tolls on all the bridge & tunnel crossings to help cover this budget short fall...( )
And spinning, it's a long way down_
Vic
mozart requiem
I think the Requiem is a very well thought out musical reflection of the entire death process, i mean the process of how we come to grips with death after someone passes.
Second suggestion:
I also think Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei(i think that's the title) is so perfect. i actually heard it for the first time on 9/11 on WQXR, and i imagined winged angels flying in circles over the buildings as they smoldered for a few hours, until at last they fell.. i feel the melody has a smoky quality to it, and since that's a key visual image i remember, i suppose that also why i feel it is appropriate.
Vivaldi's Winter movement in his Four Seasons is also quite sad and bitter sounding.
Andrea Halloran
Rage Against the Machine- No Shelter
I believe there are thousands of questions that our government has yet to answer . I am from new york. i am a patriot. and i honestly believe 9/11 was an inside job.
Kevin John
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
This music is like a prayer and the fact that it was used in a movie about people who survived a deadly plane crash is resonant with the day.
Joanie
Elegy by Monique Buzzarte
A recording of this piece was played at a memorial service I attended for a relative of a close friend who was killed in the south tower. I was moved to tears by this, something in the sounds made room for grief in a way that hadn't been there before. I don't know if it's recorded or not - I asked where they got it from and the sister gave me a link to streaming audio from the (New York city) composer's site: www.buzzarte.org/audio/elegy.m3u
I don't know anything else.
Mary Conn
Anything by Aaron Copland
He was born in Brooklyn in 1900. His music is American and touches the soul. It would be perfect to honor all those who perished that day.
Mary Jane McAteer
"Water When The Well Is Dry" by Buddy Miller
This song is not only moving but also poignant in relation to the World Trade Center disaster. I don’t know it for fact but it was written during the aftermath of 911 and tactfully ties feelings of grief, sorrow, longing, faith, and perseverance with some terrible event. Like the movie Reign Over Me this song focuses on the emotions and results for people left behind from this terrible American event.
BTW, I just barely survived the 911 attack when my ambulance was crushed to the ground on West Street when the first tower fell.
Chas Murray
Neko Case's album Canadian Amp
It was released in 2001, and we were in college living in a dorm with a full view of downtown Manhattan from our windows. We listened to this cd so many times that fall, hearing those songs now remind me of that time, and the friends I was with then.
Lorraine
Some songs I would like to hear are Michael Joncas' "On Eagles Wings", Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", Sarah Mclachlan's "I Will Remember You", and "Amazing Grace".
These songs help express the many feelings about September 11.
Patti Renegar-Fay
Jackson Browne-"Late For The Sky"
This song brings up questions and feelings that represent many of the ways I felt on September 11, 2001. This song was written years before the incident, but it has the feelings of September 11th. Thanks
Noah A. Kinigstein
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
I have always found this piece to be intensely moving; it is quiet and strong, peaceful and hopeful. I would very much love to hear it played on 9/11
Susan Martin
"Tuesday" by Amy Fairchild
This song is 9/11. Period.
Dana DiMarco
Opera
I don't know anything about opera, except that it always seems sad to me, as if someone is crying. The singers, with their long notes, seem to be aching with a loss that can be expressed in no other way.
Liz Birge
Eric Ewazen - Hymn for the Lost and the Living (Chris Gekker: trumpet, with piano)
Eric Ewazen wrote this in response to 9/11. The original commissioned piece was for a wind band, but its orchestration as a duet between trumpet and piano has always moved me.
I'm thinking specifically of the recording on the album "Winter", with Chris Gekker on trumpet and Ted Guerrant on piano. It's mournful, evocative and not overpowering.
Mark Mucci
Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance no. 12 (Opus 72 no. 4) in Db major
This extremely lovely piece has a bittersweet tone (with the sweet winning out) that I find very appropriate for the occasion.
Constantine Coutroulos
Peaceful Mind by Open Music Ensemble
The Open Music Ensemble created and performed a two-hour piece at Trinity Church Wall Street commemorating 9/11 which was videoed and released as a DVD entitled "Peaceful Mind". Please have someone contact me at the email below or 212-988-3306 for a copy to play on 9/11. Thanks. Philip Foster
philip foster
Born in a Brothrel
It is the same thing, these children didnt ask to be born in the Red Light district, the victims of Sept 11, 2001 didnt ask to be there.
The music of this documentary is beautiful. I heard it on NPR. It is pensive, sad and then you hear the tempo rise...which is hope and so is life.
We must make the ugly into butterflies not go crushing the catterpillar=war.
Dr. Shirley Koshi
"Dance of the Knights"
"Dance of the Knights" -- from Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet."
On September 11 2001, as I was driving home ( our company closed and all of our employees were told to go home ), WQXR was playing that morning, among others, "Dance of the Knights."
For all of the brave firefighters, policemen, and others who were the first responders, please play their song -- "Dance of the Knights."
PS: if this Sergei Prokofiev music is chosen, please let me know / please let me know what time of the day or evening the music will be played ?
Spasibo bolshoi !
Emilio Nazario
Nina Simone,"I Shall Be Released"
I have always loved Nina Simone. This song is particularly moving and seems to bridge the dimensions between the physical and the spiritual.
Cheryl Evans
