16 May
2007
16 May
'07
10:21 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:58 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
That famous Adagio For Strings is by the 20th-century
composer Samuel
Barber. It was also used in the movie Platoon.
It's a pity that people don't know more of Barber's work, he was a good
composer.
true, but A4S is the biggest selling piece of classical music in the US
marketplace. it was displaced momentarily by Gorecki's 3rd symphony, but
i belive that william orbit helped it regain ascendancy. so they might
not know more of barber's works, but more people own his work than
almost any other composer! strange but true (until shot down in flames)
--p