Tear-jerking. Soul-stirring. Immensely powerful. Just a few apt descriptions of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, a piece you’ve surely heard before. Even if you’re not a classical music aficionado, you’ve heard it in movies, TV shows or on CNN. It was used as the soundtrack for many 9/11 montages around the time of the attacks and on their anniversary.
Thomas Larson will be here Saturday, October 23rd, at 3PM to discuss his book, The Saddest Music Ever Written, a chronicle of Barber and this seminal work. Bring some tissues.
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This is the kind of thing I try to teach people. Can I count on a sequel?