Snider: How Graceful Some Things Are, Falling Apart
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- Composer: Sarah Kirkland Snider (1973-)
- Instrumentation: Piano, Soprano
- Work: How Graceful Some Things Are, Falling Apart (2006)
- Work Language: English
Description
Composer Note This song, which sets text by Jonathan Breit, is an attempt to give expression, in some way, to the unfathomable trauma of 9/11. I envisioned a sense of grace in how New York came together to rescue and heal itself, something I experienced firsthand living in lower Manhattan when the event occurred. I've never experienced the kindness and support of strangers as I did on that day and in the difficult months that followed, and I thought of this as I wrote the music.
How graceful some things are, falling apart. Stopped clocks, a dancer tumbling, or a breaking heart. A missing child, an empty plate, the rust on a lost wind-up toy. A shattered glass. Or looming towers crumbling into dust.
— Sarah Kirkland Snider
Snider: How Graceful Some Things Are, Falling Apart
