second movement Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

At the High School of Music and Art, the death of FDR, in April of 1945, was marked by an all-school assembly at which the Senior Orchestra played--not the Eroica--but the Seventh, music that spoke movingly to an audience of kids who had known no other president in their lifetime. It was unforgettable, and it marked that piece of music for me unforgettably forever after.

Naomi Lipman