11.9.01
A couple of weeks ago, WNYC's George Preston asked me if I would give him a playlist of music appropriate for this time.
I decided to limit my choices to music by American composers from the last twenty-five years.
Here's the list I gave him.
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composer |
title |
label |
year |
| 01 |
John Adams |
Common Tones in Simple Time |
Nonesuch |
1980 |
| 02 |
Laurie Anderson |
Oh Superman |
WEA/Warner |
1982 |
| 03 |
William Duckworth |
Turtle Dove, from Southern Harmony |
Lovely Music |
1981 |
| 04 |
Janice Giteck |
Om Shanti (first mvt) |
New Albion |
1992 |
| 05 |
Michael Gordon |
Weather III |
Nonesuch |
1999 |
| 06 |
Jerry Hunt |
Volta (Kernel) |
CRI |
1977 |
| 07 |
Ben Johnston |
String Quartet #4, Amazing Grace |
Nonesuch |
1973 |
| 08 |
Aaron Jay Kernis |
A Song on the End of the World |
CRI |
1990 |
| 09 |
Phil Kline |
from Unsilent Night |
Cantaloupe |
1992 |
| 10 |
David Lang |
Orpheus Over and Under |
CRI |
1989 |
| 11 |
Daniel Lentz |
Postludium |
New Albion |
1973 |
| 12 |
Annea Lockwood |
from Thousand Year Dreaming |
What Next |
1992 |
| 13 |
Meredith Monk |
Do You Be |
ECM |
1986 |
| 14 |
Robert Moran |
Seven Sounds Unseen |
Catalyst |
1992 |
| 15 |
Pauline Oliveros |
from The Beauty of Sorrow |
Ellipsis Arts |
1987 |
| 16 |
Steve Reich |
from The Cave |
Nonesuch |
1993 |
| 17 |
Blue Gene Tyranny |
The Country Boy Country Dog Intro |
Lovely Music |
1984 |
Tomorrow night (Saturday 11.10 @ 8 pm), he's going to play the Kernis, the Monk, and the Reich (is that some kind of trinity or what?!?!) on a program called Whole Tones: Music of Healing and Renewal, on which I'm appearing as a guest. (The show is archived: you can hear it over the internet. I don't know how long it'll stay up though.) And I'm imagining he'll include more of these pieces as WNYC returns to a regular schedule. (WNYC's operations were severely disrupted by the attack.)
Speaking of music of healing and renewal, David First has written and recorded a really beautiful song called Jump Back, which you can hear on his website. He's also giving out copies of the song in his neighborhood (he lives 2.5 blocks from the WTC), which is an act of healing and renewal if ever there was one.