Saturday, October 06, 2007

The Soundtrack 22

Featuring (drumroll!) music that makes me cry: out of joy, out of great loss and heartbreak, out of the beauty that is (I'm not ashamed to admit) nostalgia.

Henryk Górecki, Third Symphony
Brahms, second movement of the Trio Op. 114
Sherman & Sherman, "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins
Sondheim, "Johanna" from Sweeney Todd
Happy Birthday, when sung to me by true loves
and even, grrr...by cavalier lovers

1 Comments:

Mmm, I'm intrigued by the power of music to induce tears, for whatever reason. I've not heard the first two on your list, and I can't recall the second two, so I'll have to give them a listen. A few of mine:

Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6
Dvorak, second movement of Symphony No. 8

By Blogger Alex Chao, at 11:06 PM  

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