Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954). Samuel Barber /life out of balance/

Phantom Regiment via WikipediaLetters and Surveys: This year, as last, I've decided to keep a record of books I've read and significant pieces of music that I have listened to...Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard/Bartok: Cantata profanna/Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem by Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, and Ralph Vaughan Williams

For some reason, I am also listening to the music of Barber this year although how I ended up with 41 MP3s of Adagio for Strings is not clear. The quartet it belongs to is particularly good, though.

And of all my 258 Barber tracks, I can't explain why none of them are Prayers of Kierkegaard.

Though in 2003, I did blog about Prayers of Kierkegaard being played in drum corps, and the blogger/commenter pointed out they also played Adagio for Strings. He went on to point out numerous other classical references of interest including the Phantom Regiment playing Schoenberg.

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Where are you, blogger/commenter 75th Trombone? You were probably aworks' first real TCP/IP connection.

And why all of a sudden am I nostalgic about this decade, at least blogging-wise?

Comments

[BRD]

41 of Adagio for Strings? Amazing. I do recommend that your next aquisition be the Prayers of Kierkegaard. They are quite wonderful, both lyrically and musically. Thanks for the trackback.