Transmigration of Souls Film--Part 1
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Uploaded by tfgate on Sep 10, 2011
This is a film featuring images and videos from the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center set to the music of John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls," premiered in 2002 in New York. The film was created and premiered in April 2011 to complement a performance of this musical work in Lubbock, TX meant to mark the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The 2nd part of the film can be found here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPiod0xbCX8
"On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams is written for a large orchestra, chorus, children's chorus, and pre-recorded sounds. From Adams' website:
"For this work Adams assembled a text comprised of three main sources: brief fragments taken from missing person signs that had been posted by friends and family members in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy; personal reminiscences (principally drawn from interviews appearing in the "Portraits of Grief" series in The New York Times); and a randomly chosen list of names of the victims.
The work also employs a "soundscape" designed in collaboration with Mark Grey that surrounds the audience with prerecorded city sounds (quiet traffic, voices, footsteps, etc.) and the reading by many different voices of the names of the victims."
"remember"
"we will miss you, we all love you"
"my brother"
"loving"
"it was a beautiful day"
"you will never be forgotten"
"she looks so full of life in that picture"
"i see water and buildings"
"the windows on the world"
"a golden chain around his neck"
"a silver ring, his middle finger"
"a small gap, his two front teeth"
"a little mole on his left cheek"
"a wedding band, a diamond ring"
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Is this the Texas Tech choir singing? I performed in this.
ready2live 1 month ago
Juste horrible ...
Redf0042 1 month ago
I was priveleged to see/hear this piece performed by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra a few years ago. It was compelling to say the least. Very moving piece.
sewbizar1 6 months ago