Cyndi Judkins
Part of this cut was used in a public service anti-alcoholism ad back in the mid-1980s, and it was there that I first heard this (or any Mannheim Steamroller). For me it kept that association with transcendently deep futility, so much so that it made the closing cut on that side of the "Hope/Despair Tape" a friend made for me; I used that tape for active mood manipulation while badly depressed in my last few months of grad school. In retrospect, that's kind of unjust, as in its own way it's hauntingly beautiful and restful, but as I used to push myself down, bounce off the bottom, and get back up to a state where I could function, it got me through that episode, and I've never forgotten it, and I am grateful.