In Memoriam: Music for 9/11

[EveningStar]

I thought it would be good to post music appropriate for 9/11.

I'll start.

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

The composer Arvo Pärt's last name is pronounced pairt - as in pair - and today is his 76th birthday.

[EveningStar]

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[loveliberty2]

Speaking of music, during commercials for a football game, just saw and heard the Verizon message, with scenes of the Statue of Liberty, little children, and a lovely prayer.

Verizon is to be commended for such a courageous, comforting and hopeful effort on this day for reflection.

[giotto]

--J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, last movement, "Wir saetzen uns (mit Traenen nieder)"

--Bob Dylan, Masters of War

[Anoreth]

Tyr, Evening Star.

[madison10]

Have You Forgotten?

[omega4412]

The closing of the Gounod St Cecilia Mass: “Domine, salvum fac,” the modern version, not the original reference to Napoleon III.

[SnakeDoctor]

“Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” — Toby Keith.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

SnakeDoc

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

Mahler’s 6th symphony (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/May02/Mahler6_MTT.htm) performed on Sept. 12-15, 2001 by the San Francisco Sympony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. You can feel 9/11 in this amazing performance.

[omega4412]

Yes, Battle Hymn of the Republic, including the verse with the line:

Let the Hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel

I picture this as a serpent wearing a turban.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Henryk Górecki - Symphony Nº3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) - Full Piece

[sitetest]

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[keepitreal]

Rene Clausen’s Memorial:

September Morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Yvy_7pRnk

The Attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuicXs3BCok

Prayers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlMMGOTrGo&feature=related

Petitions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lznXpQa_zI&feature=related

Kyrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWKrXLx1TQE&feature=related

This was commissioned in 2003 by the American Choral Directors Association. Today it was slated to be performed by singers from across the country, directed by Clausen, at the 9-11 memorial in NYC. It is a beautiful work. Clausen is a gifted choral conductor and composer of choral music.

[Darkwolf377]

At an outdoor concert later that week ten years ago, the late film composer Jerry Goldsmith conducted his Theme from The Last Castle. He retitled the piece `September 11, 2001` from then on. I am on my vell phone and haven`t mastered the art of posting links, but check it out--it is a grim piece that always makes me think of the towers.

If I never hear the Barber Adagio again I`ll be happy, but Arvo Part`s music is just beautiful--I`ve yet to hear a piece of his I don`t like.

[RitchieAprile]

Wasn’t the Mahler Sixth played by the Deutschlandsender on the announcement of the death of Hitler?

[Radagast the Fool]

http://www.how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/lepanto-poem.html

I know it’s not music, but I’d like to have the poem that can be seen at the above link read aloud at one of the 9-11 Memorials.

The poem is about the Battle of Lepanto, written by GK Chesterton, and concerns the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

I would post the entire poem here, but it’s pretty long, hence the link.

[Captain Rhino]

For me, it has to be the “Adagio in G.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpoNXzPsy_w&feature=related

[alarm rider]

Thank you.

[omega4412]

And while we are remembering old battles...9/11-12/1683, when Christian armies under King John Sobieski of Poland defeated the Turkish army besieging Vienna.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Arvo Part wrote some of the music for the film "Hiroshima," and that is refreshing after so many Hollywood scores stuck in films by tin-eared film makers.

LINK (1995).

At first I thought the music was Bach, but it was Arvo. I do recommend the film.

After Roosevelt dies, one of the Japanese war ministers explains to the others that Truman means "True Man." Another minister says, "I hope so. I didn't care much for Roosevelt."