One of the most powerful and memorable uses of “Adagio for Strings” in a contemporary film score, comes in a scene from Oliver Stone’s Academy Award winning 1986 Vietnam War film, Platoon – a film sequence that seems to have had a particularly strong effect on a number of viewers. That scene is set in the jungles of Vietnam, as U.S. Poster for the 1986 Oliver Stone film, “Platoon,” showing the Vietnam death scene of Sgt. There have even been some disco, re-mix, electronic dance, and synthesizer versions of “Adagio” – which perhaps were not what Samuel Barber had in mind in 1936, but have nonetheless helped broaden the audience for this music. In 2006 a recorded performance of “Adagio” by the London Symphony Orchestra was the highest selling piece of classical music on iTunes. In the current digital era, “Adagio for Stings” is among the most downloaded pieces of classical music. Roosevelt in April 1945, the song was played extensively. In earlier decades, at the death of President Franklin D. The piece was also widely played in connection with events following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In 2004, “Adagio for Strings” was voted the world’s “saddest piece of music” in one survey of listeners by BBC radio. In recent years, “Adagio” has received more popular notice as many film goers have been moved to tears by the piece, used as powerful soundtrack music in productions such as: David Lynch’s Elephant Man of 1980, Gregory Nava’s El Norte of 1983, Oliver Stone’s Platoon of 1986, and George Miller’s Lorenzo’s Oil of 1992. In November 1963, on the Monday following JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy had the National Symphony Orchestra perform the piece in his honor in a nationally broadcast radio concert. “Adagio for Strings” was reportedly one of President John F. More on the book and its claim a bit later.
In fact, a 2010 book by Thomas Larson on this classical piece is titled, The Saddest Music Ever Written. The music sample below – “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber from 1936 – might also be called “Adagio for Tears” since it is known for evoking very powerful emotion and sadness among its listeners. Samuel Barber, in his later years, shown in sheet music cover photo for his Adagio from String Quartet No.
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