Renee Fleming sings Amazing Grace at WTC

Renee Fleming performing Amazing grace at the World Trade Center in October after 9/11.
This excerpt is from the most moving, thought provoking documentary on 9/11, PBS-Frontline: "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" ... a must see!
The words on the opening graphic are excerpts from a 2002 newspaper piece by Brian Doyle.

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[JoshuaH688]

I feel moved as I watch this... and then I stop myself for a moment, and I realize; I'm listening to handsomely acted interviews and stirring music. I am hearing about people's feelings and being moved by a combination of visual, audio, and vocal effects. I am observing an event of destruction being turned into a spectacle of cinematic drama; and I sense beyond the beauty of it, beyond the genuineness, that something is wrong with this. It somehow resonates eerily as propaganda.

[dnworks]

@JoshuaH688 I understand your feeling completely! All I can tell you is that you should watch the entire PBS Frontline program that this came from ... it is the most powerful, thought provoking piece you will ever see in your life! There is no 'preaching' or predictable, well scripted, heard-that-before chatter. It's two hours of amazing, multi-perspective, intellectual exploration. You'll wind up buying the video.

The video is on-line; search for Frontline "Faith and doubt at

ground zero"

[hop208]

What's the song at the end with the violins called??

[dnworks]

@hop208 It is Barber's "Adagio, Op. 11"

[trickyfocus]

i'm glad they shot the bastard in the head ...... i hope he saw it coming and for a split second i hope it hurt, And may he burn in hell, one of the most evil men lived.

[dnworks]

@trickyfocus ... I understand your feelings, but as a matter of principle I prefer not to have

vitriolic comments in my channel. I would appreciate if you can accomodate my request.

Thanks,

Dimitrios

[ajordan]

wow. i have never heard sadness articulated so sharply in a woman's voice. renee fleming has a new fan.

[kgmcal315]

This made me cry. The beauty of her voice in all the ugliness of ground zero.

[58belvedere]

Her Uncle and I are real good friends. What a Beautiful Voice!

[courag1]

What an overwhelming solo and that she was able to keep her composure and minister to so many!

[PeteHaase]

What a beautiful soul! I've always felt that about her, but this totally solidifies that feeling. And with the anniversary just behind us coupled with the Wall Street greed & protests... a reminder that the world needs more depth/truth to get us to the next level.

[Superbowler08]

GOOD GRIEF!!! Let it go already! It's been over 10 freakin' years!!!

[TheWisemonkey8]

Rene Fleming is such a wonderful artist, humanitarian and human being...

Thank for encapsulating the feeling of an entire people in your art...

Thank you...

[drinkcoffee13579]

I wish God helps these families to have peace in their mind, helps these families to go thru the pain and look forward.

[hop208]

@dnworks Thanks!