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Soul Music: 2: Barber's Adagio for Strings

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the backs of our necks.

When Samuel Barber wrote his Adagio at the age of 26 he described it as "a knockout!" but he could never have anticipated that it would become America's "national funeral music". Leonard Slatkin talks about conducting it at the Last Night of the Proms after 11 September last year.
Dana Captanino describes hearing it on a road trip across America and George Little describes hearing it as his mother died.

Contributors

Speaker:
Leonard Slatkin
Speaker:
Dana Captanino
Speaker:
George Little
Producer:
Rosie Boulton
Source: Radio Times

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