SOUNDTRACK FOR LIFE’S FADEOUT

Adagio for Strings

6 November 2025

@bigjohnf8991 7 years ago (edited) This was my late wife's favorite piece of music, It has been 34 years, and I miss her so much each and every day! Rest in peace my love! More: Adagio for Strings from the movie PLATOON! One of my favorite film score of all time. Always makes me emotional.

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Barber’s Adagio for Strings is overwhelmingly described as deeply mournful,
solemn, and elegiac, like a slow, sustained cry of grief that gradually
finds a kind of resigned peace

As death approaches, this piece would stir memories of regret
and questions of whether a life was welll spent

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