An unplayable finale and a meddling violin teacher? Jane Jones sheds light on the story behind Barber's only Violin Concerto. The American composer Samuel Barber was – depending on who you talk to – ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...

On Oct. 2, 4 and 5, global violin sensation Sarah Chang joins the Houston Symphony for a performance of Barber’s intensely lyrical Violin Concerto. The Korean-American violinist has been touted by The ...

The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin plays Barber's Violin Concerto with the American violinist Randall Goosby. Ryan ...

Violinist Gil Shaham, the highest-caliber international soloist to join the Arkansas Symphony this season, or for several seasons prior (don't forget we waited two additional years -- thanks, covid-19 ...

The 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that was taken from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster in an armed robbery is pictured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in this February 6, 2014 handout photo ...

Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Barber's Violin Concerto with the New York String Orchestra — an ensemble comprising gifted classical musicians ages 16 to 23 — on their annual late-December concert at ...

We’ve got the Parker boys on piano, and Isabel Bayrakdarian on voice—so the CBC was clearly in need of a poster boy for violin to add to its roster. Which is where James Ehnes comes in. In the past 11 ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

The violin concertos by William Walton and Samuel Barber are almost exactly contemporary – the Walton received its first performance in 1939, two years before the Barber – and they share not only a ...