He and Dr. Morton (double reed prof) were discussing what on earth could follow Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" in programming a hypothetical concert.
If you listen to it, really take the time to process it objectively and not hear it as a bunch of noise, you can hear the raw emotion and action in the piece, as it is meant to portray the actions and feelings of the atomic bomb blast and its victims.
What honestly can follow such an out-there, moving, intense, and dark piece like that?
The answer: Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." Probably one of the only appropriate things to put after Threnody. It captures the sorrow, the regret, the pain and anguish, perfectly painting a picture of the aftermath.
This outpouring of emotion is incredible. Just think how the musicians have to be in a mindset to play these two pieces, how it can effect them and how the performance almost has to be impersonal to them in order to even successfully get through the pieces.
This is why music exists.
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