On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:58 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > That famous Adagio For Strings is by the 20th-century composer Samuel > Barber. It was also used in the movie Platoon. > > It's a pity that people don't know more of Barber's work, he was a good > composer. true, but A4S is the biggest selling piece of classical music in the US marketplace. it was displaced momentarily by Gorecki's 3rd symphony, but i belive that william orbit helped it regain ascendancy. so they might not know more of barber's works, but more people own his work than almost any other composer! strange but true (until shot down in flames) --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
