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Although I have never actually had tears stream down my face as a result of any music, music does move me very deeply sometimes. Some of the pieces that have done this to me before are:
Barber's Adagio for Strings
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, West Side Story (Somewhere)
Shore's Lord of the Rings (The Grey Havens, Forth Eorlingas, The White Tree)
Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus
Kamen's Band of Brothers (Main Theme, Austria)
Verdi's Requiem
Puccini's Tourandot
Steiner's Gone with the Wind (Main Title/Tara's Theme)
Newman's Cinderella Man (The Inside Out, Cinderella Man)
Grieg's Holberg Suite (Air), Peer Gynt Suite (Ase's Death)
Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess
Whelan's Riverdance (Caoineadh Cú Chulainn)
Morricone's The Mission (Gabriel's Oboe, Te Deum Guarani), Once Upon a Time in America (Deborah's Theme), Once Upon a Time in the West (Main Theme)
Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto (2nd Movement)
Horner's Apollo 13 (Main Title, The Launch, Splashdown)
Howard's The Village
Mozart's Requiem
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo)
Dvork's New World Symphony (Largo)
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A true musical genius is one who can produce pure beautiful art with the least material and the smallest setting possible.
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