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ON THIS DAY | Barber's 'Adagio For Strings' Premiered On This Day in 1938

By The Violin Channel

November 5, 2020

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The highly-emotive masterwork has been used in many TV shows and movies, including Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning film "Platoon" and was played at the announcement of Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and the funerals of Albert Einstein and Princess Grace of Monaco

The first performance was conducted by Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

VC ARTIST DOVER QUARTET | BARBER | 'ADAGIO' FOR STRINGS

Barber's Adagio and other Romantic Favorites for Strings |CD|

Leonard Bernstein

New York Philharmonic

Release Date: July 27, 2004

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