tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727140819407436603.post8634661079757447490..comments2007-10-25T19:16:19.868-05:00Minnesota Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489196910847313061noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727140819407436603.post-53630736405246465132007-10-25T19:16:00.000-05:002007-10-25T19:16:00.000-05:00Funny - I had almost the exact same experience with <I>Amadeus</I> and the Confutatis movement from the requiem. (I was also terrified of the climactic scene in Don Giovanni until I was 14 thanks to that movie.)<BR/><BR/>The classic example, of course, is what Oliver Stone's <I>Platoon</I> did for Barber's Adagio, which wasn't nearly so well known at the time as it is now, and certainly wasn't the national mourning music that it has become. Honestly, can you hear that piece without thinking of death and loss? I can't...Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11632639554825228044noreply@blogger.com