This piece starts out electronically, and then moves into an acoustic performance.
The electronic section was performed by me on an Kurtzweil K2600. 
The acoustic section is scored for Harp, Violin, Cello, Soprano solo.
The poetry was written literally as I was driving west in NJ the day after 9-11. 
The opening electronic prelude captures the surreality of those days. 
the acoustic section includes a continuous electronic drone on the tonic pitch in the low bass. This drone pitch contained the heaviness on the day. 
The harp is falling arpeggios. The music moves in a continually downward motion. The lightness of the harp was the counterbalance to the heaviness of the falling buildings. 
The last pitch does not end on the tonic, because there was no feeling of resolution to that day. We were left with a numb disbelief, where everything was suspended in time.

Text:
"The other day, while I was driving down 195,
Before me gently lay a peaceful, late summer sky.
The eagles were floating high overhead;
The clouds wiped so quietly in light featherbeds.
But the scene was devoid of its usual buzz, 
For that day, not a plane could be heard up above.
There was no breeze, The air was still.
The warmth of the sun had an eerie chill.
The sky was too empty, too bright, too clean.
The silence was deafening.
No longer the songs of the planes could be heard
To remind me that life could ever be the same.
That was the day no planes would fly.
That was the day a nation cried."

Prelude/Empty Sky

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