Rise by Brian O'Neill

Beautiful response written the day after 9/11/01. A song about resilience and perseverance.

Jennifer Sauer

"The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughn-Williams

My spirit soars with the lark everytime I hear this music. I could listen to it all day. I think it would be very uplifting to hear it on 9/11.

Miriam R. Adelman

Mahler's Ruckert Lieder

The epitome of solace.

Daniel Wancowicz

Brahms' Requiem

This piece is about remembering those who have gone before and hope and comfort for those remaining.

Marilyn Brace

The Four Official Songs of the U.S. Military

When I recall 9/11/01, and consider the years which followed, one fact bears no equivocation. Beyond the initial victims, the ones who have borne the weight of the days since are the men and women of the U.S. Military. Therefore, I would like to hear the official songs of the four branches of our military. The army has its official song, “The Army Goes Rolling Along”, written by a young artilleryman and tuned to greatness by John Phillips Souza. The Navy has their anthem, “Anchors Aweigh”, which started as the Naval Academy’s fight song, and was slowly adopted by the fleet. The Air Force has the inspiring words, “off we go into the wild blue yonder”, though the song’s official name is simply “The Air Force Song”. And, of course, the Marines have a hymn. I wouldn’t play them all sequentially in some dutiful but simple tribute, but rather intersperse them with your other selections for the day. The order of play is unimportant, though as an ex-marine I would lead with the Marine Corps Hymn, perhaps followed by “Give Peace a Chance”.

Peter Bourke

Christmas in New York by Shilelagh Law

This song echos exactly what feels sourround 9/11. A song not only for the holidays but one about loss, love, and unity. Everyone that hears it will be touched

Ryan

The Battle Hymn Of The republic

It symbolizes the courage of a nation and the will to keep our country free and strong against all odds. It tells us that a strong faith in God is alway's needed to carry us through. But most off all it tells me that this is still the greatest nation on earth and that truth ,justice and rightousness will alway's keep us marching on. C.J.W

Caesar Joseph Warrick

Taunta (Sammy's Song) by Mountain

This very brief song swells to a mournful crescendo and is suddenly just gone. It has always been evocative for me, but it's less-than-a-minute run time reminds how quickly the towers fell, how quickly we lost hope of survivors, and how quickly life passes. It is a holy lament.
(typo in the song title on previous post - iPad grr)

Katherine

Brahms, German Requiem

A requiem for humanity-very moving music.

Kristina Goldstein

Taunts (Sammy's Song) by Mountain

This very brief song swells to a mournful crescendo and is suddenly just gone. It has always been evocative for me, but it's less-than-a-minute run time reminds how quickly the towers fell, how quickly we lost hope of survivors, and how quickly life passes. It is a holy lament.

Katherine

Imagine by John Lennon

For me, this song represents a desire for peace. "Imagine all the people, sharing all the world". It is a lofty ideal but if humankind honored love, tolerance and compassion for one another, perhaps horrible events like 9/11 would never occur. A noble ideal but one that is so difficult to achieve because of everything that divides us. My sympathy to those who lost loved ones on 9/11.

Marie

Barber's Adagio for Strings

To me it represents our very deepest hope for decency in the world.

Stephen Lepp

Rise by Brian O'Neill

a hauting original, written specifically for the occasion, Mr. O'Neill has joined image with an elegiac melody line to create a fitting tribute.

Terry Kinney

Tchaikovsky - Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in a minor

I first heard this at a Lincoln Center concert played by Emanuel Ax, Yo Yo Ma and the violinist Kim. I had never heard the piece and was blown away by its beauty and sadness and the way the end moves into the beginning theme of the piece. I later learned that Tchaikovsky wrote it as a tribute to Anton Rubinstein, who had just died. I think it would be a wonderfully appropriate piece to play on 9/11

David Gravitz

Verdi Requiem

Originally written to mourn the death of a great national figure, this is an appropriately operatic vision of both death and defiance, written in the traditional Catholic liturgy of course, but written by an atheist to celebrate a one-time free-thinker. I think it has universal appeal despite its religious nature.

Andrew Clearfield

Blue Cathedral (Atlanta Symphony recording) and

Beautiful combinations of sounds, hopeful, clear, longing. Paints wondrous pictures of memories both joyous and sad, like remembering a loved one lost feels like

Nancy Carmichael

Brahms Requium

The Brahms Requium was played at the New York Philharmonic's opening night ten years ago. It was a fitting tribute then, as it is now as we remember not only those who died, but also those who survived.

Carol Seischab

sail away by Jessica Molaskey

I first heard this when she sang it at the first memory ceremony held at ground zero a few months after the tragedy. It moved me to tears then and still does.

Emily Shortq

Fanfare for the Common Man

Doesn't the title speak for itself?

Mamie

"Natives" by Christy Moore

This is a song that truly hits upon the sadness of our world condition. The chorus is "For all of our languages, we can't communicate. For all of our native tongues, we're all natives here...", moreso, the last four lines, "The scars of the past are slow to disappear. The cries of the dead are always in our ears. Only the very safe can talk about wrong and right. Of those who are forced to choose, there are some who choose to fight." are particularly poignant. Personally I like the version of this song which is on his "Live at The Point" from 1994, but hopefully any version will get the same message across.

Chuck