So all of us will remember for the rest of our lives what happened seven years ago today, it's undeniable the effects it has had on all of our lives, if only in the slightest manner.

Caution heeds all forward momentum, so as we remember what happened on that day it is as equally important to remember what has happened in between and hope that something for the better had brought the world back into a serene light.



Hope is a tragic word to use today. Connecting itself to a possible future that could be great but also reflecting on what we live in today, the present. Music is in a similar tragic effect. Each sound is created out of nothing with the hope its existence will bring a "relaxing" effect only to have it die out in correlation with a new sound forming. It is a strong experience to reflect on the present sound but to realize what it used to be and that it eventually ends, reflects a constant paradox in the existence of anything.



In 2004, A BBC poll for the program Today revealed that Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Op.11 was viewed as the saddest piece of classical music ever written. It is a rather simple work but undergoes a vast array of transformations, including expansion and inversion and several variations of the principal melody as if shifts through each instrument in the stringed orchestra.

On September 15, 2001 the Adagio was performed in London during the Last Night of the Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall. Leonard Slatkin, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2004, also an American conductor, gave his first Last Night concert just days after the 9/11 attacks. It was a more restrained than normal concert which also featured Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in replacement of the traditional Fantasia on British Sea Songs, by Henry Wood.