The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings by Thomas Larson

The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

Thomas Larson

272 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging reflective slow-paced
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"Whenever the American dream suffers a catastrophic setback, Barber’s Adagio plays on the radio.”—Alex Ross, author of The Rest is NoiseIn the first book ever to explore Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, music and literary critic Thomas Larson t...

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