copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
Adagio for Strings - Wikipedia Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op 11 Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet
Titles featuring Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings as soundtrack - IMDb "Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world It's become America's semi-official music for mourning, used at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral and after JFK's assassination But somewhere along the way, it went from an anthem of sadness to one of joy "
THE SIGHING STRINGS OF CINEMA - Notes from a Composer The Adagio is also featured extensively in “Lorenzo’s Oil” Here is one two minute example, when Nick Nolte does painful research on his son’s horrible ailment (a six minute nearly complete rendition of the Adagio arranged not for strings but for a human choir is played at another point of the movie):
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (Platoon) - Classic FM Adagio for Strings was played at the funeral of Albert Einstein, can be heard on all sorts of commercials and movie soundtracks, and has become a modern day hit among trance music pioneers, who have taken the hypnotic harmonies composed by Barber and used them to create very different, high octane sounds
Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings and other overused movie music . . . Adagio for Strings can be heard on many film, TV, and video game soundtracks, including Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning film Platoon, David Lynch's 1980 Oscar-nominated film The Elephant Man, Michael Moore's documentary Sicko, Swimming Upstream, Lorenzo's Oil, A Very Natural Thing, Reconstruction, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Oscar-nominated 2001 film
Adagio for Strings in film | The Pop History Dig The music sample below – “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber from 1936 – might also be called “Adagio for Tears” since it is known for evoking very powerful emotion and sadness among its listeners In fact, a 2010 book by Thomas Larson on this classical piece is titled, The Saddest Music Ever Written More on the book and its claim a bit later Music Player “Adagio for Strings
Adagio for Strings (x5) - Filmscalpel Adagio for Strings began as the second movement of his String Quartet, Op 11 and has since become popular with classical music aficionados and trance deejays alike It also features on many film and television soundtracks Too many, one could argue This montage mashes up five of those movies