What piece of classical music embodies best for you

the slow, steady crumble of the great democratic experiment we call "America"?

Mine is "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber.

What's yours?

I can see we'll have lots of adagios as candidates.

:nopity:

Its such a powerful piece, one of my favorites, I heard it when a 1000 soldiers died, and they played it on 60 mins, it really made me wanna cry so much, because these soldiers well they aint much older than me. Poor guys, sigh.

There's another piece along those lines (very sad-sounding and depressing) titled "When Jesus Wept" for solo trumpet and concert band, but I can't remember the composer's name. Also a very beautiful piece, though.

you will recognize the song.

It definitely embodies the way I feel about things now.

I have the sheet music. It's very interesting to look at.

Ives was... odd. And that's putting it mildly.

Incongruous, unsettled....unanswered

The piece, or the post? :shrug:

The choice was a direct honest answer to your question.

(on edit, an explanation for the choice)

The dancing skeletons represent freedom and democracy forced to dance on the world stage. This administration of course, plays the role of death. The music coming from the fiddle is the rhetoric that makes the lifeless skeletons of freedom and democracy dance, as if still alive. The sound of the cock at dawn is the upcoming Iraqi election, which causes the fiddle to stop and the crumbling skeletons to return to their graves. To me this represents the crumbling of the American experiment in democracy. It is long dead. all that remains is for awareness to dawn.

Obnoxious? Perhaps. If so, I am sorry. But there is nothing pleasant about the current state of affairs in this once great nation. There is no music that will ease the pain.

She lives in a hut on fowl's legs, grinds up children's bones, and eats them. (No child left behind.)

From Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Very powerful and tragic.

Also love Barber's Adagio. Probably the most used music in tragedies on film. Also played at JFK's and FDR's funerals

Just in that kind of mood, i guess

Music For The Funeral Of Queen Mary by Henry Purcell.


As arranged by Wendy Carlos for synthesizer on the soundtrack to "A Clockwork Orange", it is surreal and frightening.

In its original arrangement for brass choir, it is stately, dignified, and, well, frightening.

Yes, I know Wagner was an SOB.

But his music was terrific, and I first heard the piece in the movie "Excalibur."

But if you want to hear a musical composition so beautiful it just makes you ache, listen to "Forest Murmers" from his opera 'Siegfried'. Just gorgeous.

He really deserves to be better known than he is...

This piece, like the other Lachrimae he wrote for viols and lute, is slow and mournful but has an indescribable beauty. It's more hopeful than my other choice, a Beethoven piano thingie (Op. 101???) which is the most depressingly angsty thing I've ever listened to. I'm thinking of the piece that builds this frightening chord one note at a time while shredding your spirit to pieces in the process...

I must admit, I love "Adagio", there is a lot of feeling in it.

best embodies the evil we have in the WH, SCOTUS, Pentagon.