music from ALL of the countries from which people who were killed originated. This could be folk, "world," traditional, or by composers of those countries

It means that it isn't a day for looking at the USA as a cultural monolith or a country so besieged that we can play only music by Americans or by "European white men." This is not to say that mozart Requiem mightnot capture the mood of the day for some, but there is much more and certainly time to play an enormous variety of music. Among the international music played would undoubtedly be music from the countries and ethnic backgrounds of the hi-jackers themselves as well as their fellow membwrs in Al Queda. It simply would show, in that moment, that cultures and aesthetic traditions can be quite separate from politics and interpretation of beliefs.

Dr. Jill Vexler