Deadly by the vinyl skyway
Great song with spirited lyrics about the demise of America post 911.
Susan
Beethoven 9th, the choral movement
To my daughter in law who took her girls from the 61st floor of the south tower to safety.
Allan Bintliff
Commemoration by Robert wendel
I composed this in 2000 to mark the sudden passing of 2 long-time friends (hence the echoing trumpets.) After 9-11, Erich Kunzel performed it on a 7 concert tour, it was performed in a memorial service for the Challenger astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center, and has been performed on 3 National Memorial Day Concerts on PBS-TV. It has very much become an homage to 9-11, and you should have the CD I sent you a few months back in your library: "American Reflections" it the title. I hope you can include it.
Robert Wendel
September morning by neil diamond
The words;september morning still can make me feel that way-with the accompanying crescendo of music brings the enormity of the event back.
rose-ellen
Hollow sung by ritchie havens and the circle of live from the play the lion king
The Ritchie Haven song"Follow."The music and words sublime..The sun and moon both are right and we'll see them soon through days of night.. but now darkness blinds the sky with all its light.then ..follow in the darkest night the sounds that may impel you..the song that i am singing may disturb or serve to quell you..come and taste the waters of our time..as i walk on through the garden i am hoping i won't miss you..This song is both mournful and satisfying and indeed healing.I also find the song from The Lion King ;The circle of life is very spirtually uplifting and emotionally satisfying.
rose-ellen
Bach: Sheep may safely graze
A very soothing piece of music that has always brought respite to my soul.
Nancy Knecht
"Greater love hath no man" by John Ireland
I was a member of the choir at St. Francis of Assisi Church on 31st Street, home to the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province and to FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge.
This is one of the pieces that we sang for Father Mychal's funeral. It begins with these words:
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.
Love is strong as death.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
and ends with these:
I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto to God, which is your reasonable service.
Juli Borst
Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg
To me it represents loss.
From Wiki:
The texts are taken from 'picture-postcard texts (Ansichtskarten-Texten)' by a contemporary Viennese poet named Peter Altenberg (hence the more commonly used title Altenberg Lieder). The texts deal with the stormy but beautiful condition of the soul, and the palpable sensations of love and longing. Berg's setting is for a huge orchestra. The music is full of displaced ostinati and the conflicted, lyrical passion found in much of Berg's works.
See link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oi71TeVmVM
Robert Varner
"And I saw a new heaven" by Edgar L Bainton
I was a member of the choir at St. Francis of Assisi Church on 31st Street, home to the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province and to FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge.
This is one of the pieces that we sang for Father Mychal's funeral. It ends with these words:
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying
neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away.
Juli Borst
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110)
It's so somber that I don't listen to it regularly, but it was the only music I could bare to have on after 9/11. It's fitting because it was dedicated to all victims of Holocaust and war.
Hilary Johnson
Mozart's Requiem
solemnity, reverance
Susan Benard-Handler
In America (Greg Tannen)
Greg and his brother Steve hosted a small benefit concert in the West Village just a few days after 9/11. Their warm spirits and willingness to make everyone in the room feel like friends and family makes the concert one of my strongest memories from the days following 9/11. Greg's song "In America" embodies this spirit and reminds me of the warmth in that room during days that could have felt very cold and uncertain.
Valerie
Meadowlark Song
On 9-11 it seemed to me that New York radio stations were falling all over themselves to come up with music--"Songs"--that "fit" the mood of the tragedy. All I could think of was the innocent, idyllic life I lived as a Montana child, lying on the prairie grass and listening to the song of the meadowlark. That's what I'd like to hear on this 10th anniversary. I know that my request is out of touch with what most people will ask, so, not 3 minutes, but maybe... 30 seconds of meadowlark song?
Doug Rabbit Sutherland
Bruce Springsteen Into the Fire & Empty Sky
sadness & loss-& trying to come to terms with it...
Randi Lalonde
For You by Johnny Cash & Dave Matthews
Used a year or two before 9/11 on a film soundtrack, the song is about making a sacrifice for the greater good. "The first one in, The last one gone ...That this could be my last, my final hour
But faith and hope and love give me the power ...For you"
Michael Phelan
"Don't Dream Its Over"--"New York Minute"--"Hero"--"Hallelujah Chorus"--"Pachebel's Canon"--"Trumpet Voluntary"
"Hero" reminds me of that time; it was sung often then; and says so much of that time.
"New York Minute" by Don Henley may seem dark; but describes the daily routine that turned in horrific heatbreak.
"I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again"
by Chumbawamba THIS exemplies our NYC spirit & resolve!
"Don't Dream Its Over" by Crowded House. My personal "theme song" and it is just a wonderful anthem for the anniversary of 9/11!!!
Kathi Foster
Beautiful People by Melanie
Love and memories.
Maureen O'Brien
"Heroes" -transplanted New Yorker David Bowie
That was the day that New Yorkers, that every fireman,police officer, emergency service worker- and beyond them, every ordinary new yorker, and hundreds of thousands of individuals and groups from NYC, from the surrounding area, from the country who dropped everything, dropped ego, picked up love and service and became heros, 'just for one day' and forever. I'll never ever see New Yorkers, or what the country feels about us, the same again.
jeanne palomino
The Rising by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The album as a whole and the title track in general are as perfect an ode to the painful memories of that day and the emotional trauma families have gone through in the ten years since as anything I have heard or can imagine.
Sam
"Bad moon rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Captures the "now it's really going to hit the fan" feeling of the day.
jan
