Adagio for strings...

[Medi]

...One of the MOST beautiful works...IMHO...   We have all heard it as part of a movie score, with a full orchestra...but it is the 2nd movement of a string quartet.     I have played it many times...and I really don't know what it is about.  At times...I imagine a couple meeting...talking...and then going to a room...and...well...   Other times...I imagine people gathered...talking about a tragedy...and not knowing how to remedy it.

Here it is...as Borodin wrote it...

https://youtu.be/lKrxPTePXEQ

[Medi]

...I need to make a correction...Samuel Barber wrote the work.  (It is late at night...and I need to get to bed.)     But, let me add this... ...playing in a string quartet is very powerful...there are just FOUR of you...and you are all just holding pieces of lumber...(   (I hold the biggest one...and it is between my legs...it is my cello, "Pavane"... )...and you JUST MAKE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!  We could fill a church, or a concert hall, when we played full out...and we could get an audience to lean forward and listen when we got quiet...and introspective.

Life can be good...