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050 4 $aML410.B23$bL37 2010
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100 1 $aLarson, Thomas.
245 14 $aThe saddest music ever written :$bthe story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings /$cThomas Larson.
246 30 $aStory of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
260 $a1st Pegasus Books cloth ed
260 $aNew York :$bPegasus Books,$c2010.
300 $ax, 262 pages :$bPegasus Books ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-247).
520 1 $a""The Saddest Music Ever Written is about much more than a single piece of music. It is an exploration of a fascinating composer, a case study in the cultural appropriation of works of art, and an often very personal meditation on the power of music."K︣evin Bazzana, author of Lost Genius and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould" ""As moving and eloquent as the music Larson writes about. A fascinating meditation on how our lives and our culture connect."-Michael Sherry, author of Gay Artists in Modern American Culture" ""Written with great compassion and earnestness, The Saddest Music Ever Written is an intimate history of this great work of music. The ubiquity of the Adagio speaks to its universality and its timelessness. It is the soundtrack of the soul."-Phyllis Nordstrom, Classical Voice of New England." ""Without question one of the most multi-layered books on music I've encountered. Certain to leave any reader with a sense of profound appreciation to both Barber and Larson for revealing their most intimate thoughts, feelings and life story in one masterful opus."-Pianist Daniel Glover" "An exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, the Pieta of music, and its enigmatic composer" "In the first book to ever explore Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, music and literary critic Thomas Larson tells the story of the prodigal composer and his seminal masterpiece: from its composition in 1936, when Barber was just twenty-six, to its orchestral premier two years later, led by the great Arturo Toscanini, and its fascinating history as America's secular hymn for grieving our dead. Older Americans know the adagio from the funerals and memorials for Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Grace Kelly. Younger Americans recall the work as the antiwar theme of the movie Platoon. Still others treasure the piece in its choral version under the name Agnus Dei. More recently, mourners heard the Adagio played as a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Barber's Adagio is truly the saddest music ever written enrapturing listeners with its lyric beauty as few laments have." "The Adagio's sonorous intensity also speaks to the turbulent inner life of its composer, Samuel Barber (1910-1981), a melancholic who, in later years, descended into alcoholism and sever depression. Part biography, part cultural history, part memoir, The Saddest Music Ever Written captures the deep emotion Barber's great elegy has stirred throughout the world during its seventy-five year history, becoming an icon of our national soul.." ""Whenever the American dream suffers a catastrophic setback, Barber's Adagio plays on the radio."-Alex Ross, from The Rest is Noise"--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBarber, Samuel,$d1910-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81015460
600 10 $aBarber, Samuel,$d1910-1981.$tAdagio for strings.
650 0 $aComposers$zUnited States$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aComposers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117722
650 0 $aPiano music.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101782
700 1 $aBarber, Samuel,$d1910-1981.$tAdagio for Strings.
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