--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reggie Bautista wrote:
<snip>
> > * We also kept a few CDs with longer somber pieces
> handy just in case of a
> > major disaster to US and allied troops...<sniplet>
> ...I specifically remember
> > the slow movement from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony
> and Barber's Adagio for
> > Strings were two of the pieces we kept nearby;
> there were others as well that I don't remember.
>
> Barber's Adagio for Strings is an incredible piece.
>
> The Friday after 9/11, when a lot of US stations
> were carrying the concert
> done by tons of different people...<sniplet>...BBC
>America was airing a concert from England,
> something about the end of the Prom (or Proms?), and
> they did "Adagio for
> Strings" in honor of the American tragedy.
<snip>
They played that after Kennedy's assassination too; my
mom can't hear that piece without getting teary.
> Oh, and at some point during the week of 9/11,
> instead of their usual
> music at the end of NBC News ("The Mission" by John
> Williams?), they did
> something very haunting that sounded familiar, but I
> couldn't place it.
> Then quite awhile later, I think I remember hearing
> it when I caught a
> little bit of "Born on the Fourth of July"... <snip>
That's another gut-wrencher; Vaughn William's
'Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis' (IIRC the title; might
say 'Thomas Tallis') is also quite hauntingly
beautiful and sad. Loreena McKinnet (?sp) set a poem
to music, with a long Uillean (?sp) pipe lead-in --
very poignant. I can't recall the poem's title or
author, but some lines go:
"Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons with their subtle guile
Lift up before us as they pass -
Or only gaze a little while...
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives
Roots half-hidden under the snows
Broken limbs and blackened leaves..."
(It ends hopefully, however, with "Beloved, gaze in
thine own heart - gaze no more in the bitter glass..."
Or something like that.)
Musical Crutches Maru
And happy anticipation to the expecting brineller
progenitors and their families! :D
"Happy, Furry Monsters Feeling Glad!" **
**Sesame Street moment ;)
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