Bassoonists always feel left out of some great compositions. Just about the only glory the insturment sees is in several of Beethoven's Symphonies and Bach's first Brandenburg. Other than that, you pine to be a violist in the Adagio or a horn player William Tell. Now I couldn't care less about the Barber.
That idiot movie ruined a perfectly beautiful piece of music for me.
LOL!
It was that film that turned me onto Barber.
It is now my signature ending to all my radio shows (OK, without the rockets going off...)