Moment Away by the Dana Fuchs Band
It is a beautiful song about unexpected loss and the connection loved one will always have with the people that are no longer with us - Written specifically for the 9/11 victims
Christine Perovic
Sport Murphy's "Uncle"
The only CD I listen to on 9/11 is Sport Murphy's "Uncle". Sport is a long time singer songwriter (Kill Rock Stars) who's nephew was a NYFD member who died on 9/11. "Uncle" is his personal tribute to him and a beautiful CD. I obviously never met the man who died but being a fan of Sport Murphy I want to share in his tribute. (best track, "No Fair")
Gilligan
Moment Away by Dana Fuchs
This song says it all i.m.h.o.
Harry
Dana Fuchs, Moment away
Heard her in Notodden Blues festiva, Norway. Just love her music.
Torkel Greiner
Just a Moment Away
The Dana Fuchs version of this song is very soulful. The song is very poignant. It speaks to me about how life can change in an instant, either for good or for bad. We should always live our lives to the best that we can because "Just a Moment" from now it will be different. I live in Canada, and on Sept 11, 2001, I was expecting people over to celebrate my husband's birthday. They still came to our home and we instead mourned the loss of so many of our american neighbours, as well as several Canadians. That moment changed how I saw the world, and made me appreciate every day since.
Lest we forget ... "Just a Moment Away"
Susan Smith
Moment away by Dana Fuchs
I think the lyrics are something special and the way Dana sings this song is something sweet and sad and lovely and bluesy and...there are a lot of emotions in this song and Dana make 'em all come to your ears and your heart...and to your soul too.
gianfranco
Moment away performed by Dana Fuchs
A fantastic voice and performance..Likes the song and only an electric guitar just get into your haart.
Roy
Moment Away by Dana Fuchs
Very touching tribute that exudes so much personal emotion for me. Very well written and sincere.
nosecret04
Fanfare for the Common Man, Copeland
Majestic ode to the heros that gave teir all on 9/11/2001.
Constance Wynn-Smith
Moment Away by Dana Fuchs
Dana wrote this song based on the emotion that gripped her on 9/11 and the days after as people were searching for lost loved ones.
Allmack
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
It is a very soothing piece of music. I love it and I think about Johnny Weir skating to it.
On 9/11 WQXR was the ONLY station not going on and on and on with news that day. I watched the Towers burn from our sky walk in the hospital (in Washington Heights) and when I got home, I didn't want to see the endless stream of the tragedy that the news had. So I turned on WQXR and was able to go to sleep.
Karen
Bad by U2
On 9/11 I was a United Airlines flight attendant who had just returned home to NYC the night before, from a route which included flight 93. (Obviously there's a lot more to that story, but this is about the song) A little more than a month later I went with a good friend to see U2 play at Madison Square Garden. It was so comforting to be in a room of 20,000 people and feel our camaraderie. It became a safe place for the cathartic release of energy and emotion that had been building. Singing turned to screaming during Bad when we got to the lyric "I'm wide awake, I'm not sleeping", an f-you to the terrorists that they could never get away with this again. Tears streamed down my face as I mouthed "If I could, you know I would, If I could, I would, Let it go", knowing my 9/11 experience is something I'll never let go of despite their further urgings "Let it go, And so fade away". I left NYC and United in 2004 and struggled with the "Dislocation", "Separation" and "Isolation" of being around people who couldn't even begin to understand what it was like here that day. Hearing Bad always reminds me that somewhere out there, there are thousands of people who do understand. *On a side note - I moved back to NYC in May of this year and even found an apartment with a clear view of the ever-rising Freedom Tower, a symbol to the resiliency of both the city and myself, and reminder to live for those who were lost.
Christine Schaefer
New York, New York; God Bless America
For months after the horrific event, I heard those songs on the lips of New Yorkers or blaring out from stores and buildings. The most rousing version of "God Bless America" was 'performed' by a few 3-year-old nursery school girls returning home via public bus. Prode and love of country and city were stirred din those moments.
Sharon Silverman
Music For Eighteen Musicians by Steve Reich
Reich's music reflects a certain time in lower Manhattan, its rhythms, the architecture, patterns of movement and light. It taps into a sense of loss, time passing, and also the building repititions of sound hint at cycles, life goes on, though we remember everything that was lost.
Susan Daitch
Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
These heartbreaking "songs for dead children" by Gustav Mahler bring to mind the senselessnes of the violence of 9/11. I have Christa Ludwig's recording of two of the songs, one of the loveliest recordings I've ever heard.
Liz
Frank Sinatra's version of The House I Live In
This wonderful song by Earl Robinson, my late mother's favorite, epitomizes what the USA is and strives to be -- a country where all people, no matter their races, ethnicities, religions, points of view, vocations or financial status, are welcomed and respected. The awful events of 9/11/01 brought people together -- it was a terrible time and, yet, wonderful, in the way people helped each other and longed for peace. Since then, there has been so much hateful rhetoric meant to divide people that it seems no lesson was learned. Everyone should hear this song so they may remember what we're all about.
Liz
Mike Batt's Walls of the World
It is a very nice love song ... it has a lyric ...
I will write it on the walls of the world, so that the sun won't fade away the words I say to you, I love you.
... I could be miles away in another land.
Ask Amy Eddings ... Her friend, Mark Lane, knows the song well.
SPM
frank sinatra's ''the house i live in'', sang in 1945
it somes up what america is all about, sung by the greatest pop singer the usa has ever produced. he also was one of the most generous we ever produced.frank sinatra didn't have a prejudiced bone in his body. when ''nat king cole'' was refused entry to a hotel [i believe it was in nevada], frank said, either he stays or l go. nat was admitted. carl scala
carl scala
David Crosby; If I Could Only Remeber My Name, tracks 7,8 &9; Song with no words, Orleans & I'd swear there was somebody there.
All three tracks are etheral and moving with no words except Orleans which has abstract lyrics in french. This album came to mind as I crossed the Tappan Zee bridge on 9/11/01 looking south and seeing smoke rise.
Theodore Galloway
