Music #432 - Barber

Samuel Barber 

(1910-1981)  

He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20^th century.

An American, he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for
* opera Vanessa
* Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

Also widely performed is his Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a work for soprano and orchestra.

His Adagio for Strings has earned a permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. 

Source: Wikipedia

Adagio for Strings - String Quartet No.1 Mvt 2

This music piece can be solemn, 

* as sung with mass prayer Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) in Latin

It can be light and heavy: 

* heavy metals added to light it up, and to speed it up!

* digitized

It can be a sad requiem L.  
Besides the funeral of President FD Roosevelt, it was performed in ...

* mourning the deaths in 911

* trailer theme in the Platoon movie 

* end theme in the Elephant Man movie 
   - “I am not an animal! I am a human being! 
        I … am … a man!”  Good grief!