On Sunday, WQXR commemorated 9/11 by playing suitable music suggested by listeners. Amidst a lot of great music (playlist here,) Elgar's "Enigma Variations: Nimrod" stood out for me. The piece honors a friend of Elgar's named Jaeger who encouraged the composer to persevere. Jaeger is the German word for "hunter" and Nimrod, according to Genesis, was "a mighty hunter before the Lord."
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