Sixty voices sustain the piece inside a Cathedral that is 700 years old. No stage microphones; just natural acoustics and gothic reverberation. The sound takes it's time to die. each note carries the shadow of the last.

It rises in slow waves like something building with no turning back. Barber later arranged it for orchestra and it became known as Adagio for Strings. Decades later he requested it be played at his own funeral.

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