The movie Platoon was released the year I was born, so I only watched it many years later. I knew Adagio For Strings because my mom always listened to it. After watching Platoon I could never listen to Adagio again without feeling a lump in my throat and a deep sadness.
Just this movement of a string quartet makes Samuel Barber, in my opinion, one of the greatest composers in the saddest century of all. It’s mourning music, even greater than Chopin’s funeral march.
The movie Platoon was released the year I was born, so I only watched it many years later. I knew Adagio For Strings because my mom always listened to it. After watching Platoon I could never listen to Adagio again without feeling a lump in my throat and a deep sadness.
Just this movement of a string quartet makes Samuel Barber, in my opinion, one of the greatest composers in the saddest century of all. It’s mourning music, even greater than Chopin’s funeral march.
Overwhelmingly sad and beautiful at one and the same time !
Maybe that's all mankind has brought to this poor old planet? Time we left .