Today I listened to a podcast called To The Best of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio. This is a podcast that I really enjoy, but hasn't made it into my weekly rotation. And really it should, because the shows are really interesting and kind of similar to This American Life where they take a topics and do short news/non-fiction pieces about it. The episode I listened to today was called Why Do We Love Sad Songs. And I was introduced to this amazing piece of music called Adagio for the Strings by Samuel Barber:
It premiered on the radio in the late 1930s but gained popularity as song played at funeral after being played several times following the death of FDR.
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