Adagio for Strings Adagio for Strings Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arguably his best known, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet. It was performed for the first time on November 5, 1938, by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast from NBC Studio 8H. Toscanini also played the piece on his South American tour with the NBC Symphony in 1940. Its reception was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that "Adagio for
Dancing in the Dark (1986 film) Malcolm, a respected English film critic, said the film was "Terrible, embarrassingly sincere, and also embarrassingly inept". Aside from being involved with the New York Film Festival the American's responded negatively to the release of "Dancing in the Dark". Dave Kehr, who is an American film critic, spoke of the film saying that it was "like a second-rate film of the seventies". Dancing in the Dark (1986 film) Dancing in the Dark is a 1986 Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Leon Marr and was produced by Anthony Kramreither, Don Haig and co-produced by John Ryan, with