As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the infamous terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City approaches, Portsmouth Community Radio (WSCA-LP at 106.1 FM) will devote special programming to reflect on the event and to honor its victims. Five separate programs will participate in the broadcasts over six days beginning on Thursday, September 8th.

Anita Croteau, host of This 'n' That With Anita (Thursday, 3-5 pm) will devote this week's program to music commemorating the events of September 11, 2001, including the moving Angels and Heaven, and honoring the first responders who now suffer from illnesses as a result of being at Ground Zero on the day of the attacks and in its aftermath.
 

On Friday morning, the program Radiogazette (9-10 am), hosted by the station's News and Public Affairs Director Ann Haggart, will follow the story of two Seacoast colleagues and their families as the events of 9/11 impacted their lives on that fateful day.
 
Additionally, Ellen Fitzpatrick, UNH professor of History and a scholar specializing in modern American political history, will be joining Ann in a live discussion of the historical perspective of 9/11. As a presidential historian, Dr. Fitzpatrick often appears on the PBS broadcast Newshour.
  

Finally, Ken Feinberg, distributor of the 9/11 Fund, will be interviewed by Ann. Feinberg speaks of the strength he drew on to complete this difficult task.
  

Radiogazette will end with a poem written by a Seacoast author to commemorate the tragedy of that day.

On Sunday Susan Tuveson, host of Classical Combinations (8-10 am), will broadcast the Duruflé Requiem, as well as various works by American composers, in honor of the memory of 9/11's victims and their survivors. Maurice Duruflé, a French composer, was commissioned in 1947 to write the Requiem, Op. 9. At the time of the commission, Duruflé was working on an organ suite using themes drawn from Gregorian chant. Duruflé incorporated his sketches for that work into the Requiem, which uses many themes from the Gregorian Mass for the Dead, thus the majority of thematic material in this Requiem comes from chant.

Also on Sunday, Portsmouth Community Radio Music Director Angelynne Hinson, and frequent host of  Operaworks Radio (5-7 pm), will air a special two-hour program to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. The program's first hour will feature 9/11: A Tribute At Dusk, an original production created by Alexandra Borrie in September and October of 2001. The two-person piece has been performed in New York City for the original Temporary Memorials Committee on which Ms. Borrie served. This work of commentary, personal accounts and poetry, also includes music by familiar American composers such as Charles Ives and Samuel Barber and contemporary composers Chester Biscardi and Patricia Van Ness.

The second hour will include the broadcast of Nils Lindberg's Jazz Requiem and Stephen Hartke's Pacific Rim, two contemporary works that serve as fitting memorial music.
  

Later on Sunday, on The Free Speech Zone (7-9 pm), host Brad Carr ("Big Brother") will direct his attention to controversy: "While National Public Radio announces that 'the facts of 9-11 are indisputable,' at least half of all Americans do not believe the official narrative of that day and the events surrounding this attack on our country," declares Brad.