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Has anyone else heard this? It's a twenty-five minute piece that John Adams wrote to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks of 11/09/01, it mixes choirs, samples and an orchestra and is absolutely fucking terrorfying.
It starts building slowly for the first ten minutes, the orchestra and sounds being layered in a very ambient way, a child's voice reciting 'missing', names being read out, then the choirs start singing phrases from news reports of the time, then in the second ten minutes there are two crescendos, first of instruments, then the choirs sing again, and when they practically shriek "I know just where he is! I know... just where... he is!" it's one of the most harrowing effects I've ever heard. Then, for the last minutes it quietens down again, the strings play as the names are read again, the phrases, and finally "I love you", "I love you"...
Seeing as the only time in my living memory when we've had music to commemorate an event has been Elton John updating Candle in the Wind I don't have anything to compare it. |
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