However, never listen to this if you are depressed.

I think I first heard it in the movie Gallipoli during a devastatingly tragic scene. Allied soldiers being sent, hopelessly, into enemy machine gun fire and played in slow motion. The only upside for me was becoming aware of Barber as a brilliant composer.

for me to get through some of life's worst crises.

“What can one say about a piece that is eight minutes of unrelieved sorrow?”