In Saturn's Rings good match for the film's sensibility. The Giant Film Cinema Association had been publicizing the film and surveys it conducted supported this. It was during a discussion in 2012 about the film's climax where he was describing Earth "in Saturn's rings" that van Vuuren realized he had found his new title. A 2013 Kickstarter campaign has raised nearly double the initial $37,500 goal. Much of that amount was used to finance a new recording of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", performed by the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. (Van Vuuren currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.) The film's advisors include Dr. Steve
Adagio for Strings radio interview about it with WQXR and said, "They always play that piece. I wish they'd play some of my other pieces." In 2004, listeners of the BBC's "Today" program voted "Adagio for Strings" the "saddest classical" work ever, ahead of "Dido's Lament" from "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony, "Metamorphosen" by Richard Strauss, and "Gloomy Sunday" as sung by Billie Holiday. In 2006 a recorded performance by the London Symphony Orchestra was the highest-selling classical piece on iTunes. The musicologist Bill McGlaughlin compares its role in American music to the role that