In the middle of the 20th century, when composers were writing with angularity and dissonance, Barber forged his own lyrical, romantic style. By... The Life And Music Of Samuel Barber The Life And ...

One of the 20th century’s significant composers is being remembered today for his 100th birthday. Samuel Barber was born in West Chester in 1910, studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the greatest classical American composers of the 20th century. His music is greatly loved for its rich complexity, depth of feeling, and beautiful craftsmanship.

If sadness could be conveyed with sound, could be expressed in musical notes and experienced through melody, the resulting piece would be Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, an American icon of grief ...

Samuel Barber’s three mid-century concertos — for violin, piano and cello — formed a centerpiece of this summer’s Aspen Music Festival Theme, “Being American,” the final two coming in featured ...

It was one of the biggest disasters in modern musical history: In 1966, when a Samuel Barber premiere, “Antony and Cleopatra,” inaugurated the new home of the Metropolitan Opera at New York’s Lincoln ...

American composer Samuel Barber would have been 100 years old Tuesday. He was a favorite with musicians and audiences, but Barber's music didn't fare as well with critics, who tended to write it off ...

Music by Samuel Barber. Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Premiere: January 15, 1958, Metropolitan Opera, New York City. Sung in English. January 16, 1958, the morning after Samuel Barber’s Vanessa ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and ...

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is an exciting weekday program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each weekly series builds off a single theme ranging from composer ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Performing “Vanessa” is just what the Boston Symphony should be doing. But its concert staging came off as drab and ineffective. By David Allen ...