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Originally posted by Ramona_A_Stone
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is another essential. You can probably find at least 50 different arrangements, ranging from choral to brass. (You might know this as the opening theme for Inside the Actor's Studio... if memory serves...)
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Yeah, we sang this in our concert series this semester -
a cappella, ensemble of ~16. In the recording session we had to sing it twice in a row w/o break...the first time, someone hit a light switch and it fucked up the recorder, zapping the recording about halfway through. We were obviously pissed, but the second go-through turned out better anyway. The choral arrangement is called
Agnus Dei (there are many Agnus Dei versions out there - some use the Latin text, some use a combo of Latin and English...I don't know, however, if any are done in just English...if so, it wouldn't even make any sense to call it Agnus Dei...it may as well just be Lamb of God - Samuel Barber is definitely not the only person to do an Agnus Dei).
Edit: I hate typos.