Listening to Samuel Barber's Adaggio For Strings. Magnificent.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Even if it DOES still remind me of "Platoon". It's an incredible piece of music.

[hlthe2b]

1. Absolutely wrenching in its beauty...

I can't listen without kleenex....

[erinlough]

2. I bought a CD

that was only that song on it, by all different groups and all different instrumentation, even voice. It was wonderful and then my son stole it from me and I miss it.....

[hippywife]

3. Really, really moving.

That is my second fav piece of music after Nessun Dorma, which I used in my wedding (Pavarotti, of course.)

[asjr]

4. It makes me remember there are still some things

in life we can enjoy. The music goes on.

[fortyfeetunder]

5. I played it all day after the Nov 2004 election....

reflecting the melancholy I had about the outcome.

[Taxloss]

6. Incredible stuff!

Really beautiful.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. It isn't Barber, but in honor of your screen name . . .

. . . here's some Granier.

[bridgit]

8. very likely the most beautifully sad...

and tragic assemblage of tone, melody, and modulation found within contemporaneous music :thumbsup: the compilation title: Barber's Adagio, has several renditions; string, wind, electronic and such...but it is the choral piece that is positively wrenched with beauty...

:cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

10. Heh. See post nine.

Great minds, bridgit. :hi:

[bridgit]

12. most sincerely agreed with...

:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Have you ever heard it arranged for voices?

Indescribable.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Never have. Now I'll have to track it down.

Should be fun!

[bertha katzenengel]

14. See post no. 8, bridgit's post -- that's the CD cover.

Don't miss it. :hi:

[marigold20]

13. I have that CD

I love the Agnus Dei setting.

edit - this is a setting for voices - just beautiful.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. MIDI file

Please click here and follow the links to the MIDI. It is about 6 and a half minutes.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. No piece sounds more like grief

No wonder it is played on occasions of public mourning, as after JFK was assassinated.

[JohnKleeb]

17. Yes its beautiful, Barber is my favorite composer

He has a lot of other great pieces too.