Copeland's "Quiet City"

This piece of music is quite meaningful to me. After the Brooklyn Bridge was reopened, I went into Brooklyn to visit my daughter. I returned home at night traveling over the bridge. In the extensive area where the sparkling lights of the Twin Towers and the other lower Manhattan buildings used to be, there was nothing but black. Black, black and more black. My city was no longer sparkling. Quiet City gives the empty feeling I had at that time and place, while some notes of hopefulness can be heard towards the end of the piece.

Barbara