Teary - Eyed while listening to ...............

Here are my top five:

1.End of Sibelius 2
2.The second fugal section of the last movement of beethoven's ninth (when al the parts are moving under the suspended soprano note)
3.End of Maslanka's 4th symphony
4. The beggining of the recapitulation of Rodrigo's Concerto de Arunjez
5. The part in Dvorak's 9th, in the last movement, when the first part of the main theme of that movement is repeated, over and over, then overtaken by the triplet theme.

My apologies if I was incoherent in my desciptions.

Oh!

John Williams:
-Qui Gon's Funeral
-Birth of the twins and Padme's destiny
-Memoirs of a Geisha: The Chairman's Waltz
-Across the stars

-Opening Choral of Final Fantasy
-Chopin's first piano concerto
-Chopin chopin chopin!

Weep oh fellow composers! Weep!!!

I forgot to add "Berlioz Symphony Fantastique"...

Agh! Such despair! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

:'(

Ummm, gee, what HASN'T sent tears down my cheeks?

Well most recently (as in this week):

J. S. Bach: Cantata 82 - "Ich habe genug"

Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor

Tchaikowsky: Symphony #4 in F minor

I dont' cry, I just get mega-depressed.

Work like that:

-Aerith's theme from Final Fantasy VII (There may be extra-musical associations with that)
-Hohner by David Maslanka. Robert Hohner was my instructors instructor, and I guess he was a really amazing guy, and a really amazing teacher. When he suddenly passed away at an early age, Maslanka wrote this piece for him, as a sort of requiem (apparently they were really good friends.) Last year when we hosted our chapter's PAS event, we performed that piece. However, what made it truly special was the ngiht before the performance we had a dress rehearsal with the full setup, which included doubling and tripling the marimba and vibe parts with students from other colleges. It was a wonderful sound, but there is one moment in the piece, when everyone hits this big C Major chord after all this chromatic business, that really got to me, especially with all the people there.
-That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! by Sufjan Stevens. A very bittersweet, very beautiful song.

I've never been "moved to tears" by music. I don't even think any music has made me actually feel sad or depressed (just angry, but that's a different thing ).

But several pieces have managed to make me sit through a concert with my jar dropped and wishing the music would never end (which also often had to do with awesome performances, not just the composition). The most recent one (last Saturday) was Wolfgang Rihm's "Male über Male 2", others include Xenakis' "Mycenae Alpha", Wagner's "Meistersinger", Bach's B-minor mass, Boulez' "Pli selon Pli", Rameau's "Les Paladins" (William Christie conducted. It was the most opulent opera experience I ever had.), a string quartet by Lachenmann which I don't even remember the name of, and others.

Albinoni - Adagio in G minor
Sibelius - Valse Triste

JSbach BWV 578 - Fugue in G minor, and Mozart KV626

Richard Wagner Tannhäuser Overture

YouTube Video

Miles Davis - Blue in Green

(Original Source)

This.

Is.

The greatest song in existance.