"katysails" wrote in message

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"katysails" wrote in message

Bach's Air on the G String is one of my favorite pieces...

I had an arrangement of it played at my mother's funeral. Also Samuel
Barber, Rachmaninoff, and Albinoni.

The Albinoni Adagio is also beautiful...

Indeed. My daughter, age ten at the time, requested Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini--the melodic interlude from the middle--because it
was one of her and her grandmother's favorite pieces. I requested Samuel
Barber's Adagio for Strings to be played just before the pastor spoke.
Following the crescendo near the end, there was nary a dry eye in the
church. That is a most moving piece, and it still makes me misty whenever I
play it.

Max