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Beautiful Music NOW - On the Transmigration of Souls

Chris Bennion
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courtesy of the artist

Art has long been a way for people to honor and memorialize things in life that elude description in words. On this solemn date, today's Beautiful Music is a work by American composer John Adams that is a direct reaction to the 9/11 attacks.

ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS is a composition for orchestra, chorus, children's choir, and tape recording. Adams calls it a "memory space" and said, "It's a place where you can go and be alone with your thoughts and emotions."

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.