Adagio

Really well done... Well made.

Barber's composition defines sorrow for me and yet somehow it comforts as well.*

Fantastic rendering of this monumental piece of music.

Fave.

Thank you, Steve. Means a lot to me.

Thank you, Joani.

Thank you, Robert.

Love this, Gary! Thrilling.

Thank you, Mia.

These words take me to a better place. I enjoy this piece more with every read.

Thank you, Carol.

nice. love barber, too.

Cathartic. *

" . . . the calm this time . . . "

This is lovely, Gary. I can feel the strains and hear the tone in my mind. We need music, and yet, they keep stripping away funding for the arts....

Amazing. I know I left a comment and faved, but the comment has vanished. I recall it was something about how you got inside the music and revealed some of its inner secrets. You did, of course.

Good piece, Gary -

"Can the calm this time
give us space to step deliberately
toward peace or something like it?"

I like. *

Thank you, James. Barber composed many wonderful pieces seldom heard now.

Thank you, Sally, for your response.

Thanks, Mathew. There is a place somewhere in the inner workings of Fictionaut that holds many messages as electronic hostages.

Thank you, Sam. I have to credit a friend for some of the re-working of this, and the link.

Nice work, Gary. Beautiful music.*

i've never liked barber. i like this piece much more.

Thank you, John. Coming from a superior musician, high praise, indeed.

Thank you, Stephen.

J. Mykell, I appreciate your kind use of "cathartic" very much.

Well Gary, you've taken a beautiful piece of music and written about it beautifully. *

Beautiful finish.

I echo J. Mykell ... cathartic. Also powerful in a gentle way. *

Di'n't see this earlier.

Thank you, Foster. Ekphrasis is a fine way to open the channels to available wavelengths.

Thank you very much, Frankie, Quirina and James.

Just getting to this. Thanks for the reminder and more than able commentary on a beautiful piece of music.*

Thank you, Gary.

Profound meditation on the music.

Thank you, Gloria.

Thank you for this, Gary. *

Thank you for reading it, Beate.

coming to this, finally, late but...nevertheless i've arrived. fantastic piece of work. faved.

Thank you very much, Alex.

Also one of my top five favorite classical pieces. Well done capturing it, Gary.

Thank you, Copper.

Excellent piece! I'm not a Barber fan, mostly listen to Baroque, especially Vivaldi, Bach, Corelli, Telemann, Purcell, the rest of the gang; but Barber was bigger than himself in this piece that you so gently and elegantly write about. But the poem, of course, should be good without either knowledge or appreciation of the music -- and it is! Thanks.

Thanks, Willie. I am very charmed by the Baroque gang as well. I suspect that God, when It chooses to exist, listens to Bach.

Simply gorgeous, Gary.

Beautiful poem Gary. For those of us of a certain age, it became the dirge of national grief after the Kennedy assassination when it was played for four days without stop.

Thank you, Daniel.

Well written poem on a stunning piece. Fun fact: Barber's "Adagio" is a smaller part of a larger work--String Quartet, Op. 11.

Thank you, Amanda. It's interesting how pieces from pieces can be re-arranged, transcribed, re-orchestrated and transformed.

Well played. *

"to an orchestra stripped of wind and drum "

Thank you very much, Michael.

Excellent! Love!

Thank you, Mia.

Wonderful. It's difficult to write about music respectfully but not too respectfully and you've done it.

Thank you, Marcus. I appreciate the reading.

I favorite this and would also like to favorite Marcus's comment, as he said what I wanted to say, more or less.

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Thank you, Matt.

I love this gorgeous line that still sticks inside my head: or must we turn again (and again)
to an orchestra stripped of wind and drum?--Faved

Thank you very much, Kyle.

Absolutely! It's pure music~ perfectly arranged and paced! *

Thank you, Michael.

masterful manipulation of sound and pause and tone to create a powerful effect, and question.

My brain had a pleasantly difficult time deciphering all the stimuli in this piece,really took me a few times of reading through it along with the Adagio itself to really grasp it.

I was captivated by this music of the poem. Fav'd

Barber has always been one of my favorite composers -- and this captures his music as I have never been able to put into words. Stunning, and perfect.

Like Adagio.. words that blend in harmony with existence.

Thank you for making me laugh this morning with your comment on my piece.

Love this: it divines each sorrow,
draws them all together
as if into a chalice crystalline and clear,
then shatters and spills everything

Beautiful piece of work.

Sad , yet some how, "returns us, purified."

I love the imagery and sounds in this, especially 'shatters and spills everything'; I always love the image of shattering, and this line is great, with 'spill', giving the shattered things a more fluid feel.

The inevitability of the song being used for a future tragedy is the inevitability of future tragedy. Poignant.

An extraordinary ekphrastic poem! I love the Adagio, and you capture not only its core, but our core when we hear it, when we realize what music does, can do, to us, and the work it inspires.

Thank you, Tantra, Tyler, Kyle, Phillip, Linda, A., Steven, and Phillip.

If ever a work captured the full beauty and sound of this remarkable music, it is this Gary. The whole poem is an extension of the core of Barber's work. Wonderful to read this, as that is one of my favorite compositions.

Thank you, Phillip.