Fri Sep 8 22:07 EDT 2017

I'm listening to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and I realized "Oh yeah, this the piece that fakes people into applauding too soon." It's got a huge dramatic pause - builds up through a big crescendo, and then just stops: but it's not the end. There's always the bit about the cognoscenti and the riff-raff, and an " ( Read more... )

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