Maybe we shall step aside from funny topic of Top 10 Irritating Commercial Videos for some time. The thing is surfing the worldwide web I have come across the fact that not only modern music styles and trends are flourishing, but some examples of previous years has also its meaning today. And this meaning is significant. Let’s take for example Samuel Barber’s works of art that till today can be heard in the most popular films. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings can be heard in such films as an Oscar nominated The Elephant Man movie shot by David Lynch; Amelie, which is a world known Oscar nominated film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet; documentary Sicko from Michael Moor; or Platoon, the film that got an Academy Award. And there list is to be continued.

One of the most popular resurrections of Adagio you can see in Platoon, the film which has had enormous success. Platoon is considered one of the strongest war films of all times.

In other words, his music works frequently appear on TV, video and even video games. I have always admired that some musicians as well as poets gain immortality thanks to their work. As Samuel Barber said writing songs he immerses in them and music flows out of them. Nobody could find more beautiful words. So, I suggest that we immerse into magnificent world of music and feel its power.

But not only film directors admire Samuel Barber’s genius. Adagio was included by P. Diddy into Notorious B.I.G. “I’ll be missing you.” extended version. It was also performed in the year of 2001 to commemorate the victims of September 11 terrorist attacks. In other words, the song has a rich and diverse history (it is hard to believe that Adagio was composed as early as 1936) and seems to become even more popular in the course of time.