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Description: Classical group New Music New York performs three songs of mine honoring text from Ayn Rand's fiction. Music by Richard GleavesBeth Anne Hatton, SopranoMalina Rauschenfels, CelloAndrew Pau, PianoText:#1) On the Shore of the Hudson (adapted from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand)I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of the New York skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in the jungle where they go to pay homage to a crumbling stone temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they're longing to see? Are they seeking a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel.Composer's note:When the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11th, I was administrative assistant at a small restaurant company across the street. I had worked for five years at the foot of the Twin Towers and loved them as if I'd built them myself. At sunset I would take the elevator to the South Tower observation deck and look out at the ocean, at the city, and plan my future. I was a struggling young writer, and I had adopted those buildings as my proof that achievement was possible. I loved their grandeur, their ambition, their promise of unlimited possibilities. I watched them come crashing down. And I've grieved their greatness ever since.I was reminded that September morning of a passage from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead beginning "If war came to threaten this...". Those words have lingered, becoming Skyscraper Songs- my tribute to New York, to the achievements of Western Civilization, and to all the irreplaceable futures lost that day.
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