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.

In a 1949 CBS radio interview, Barber described the piece as expressing "a child's feeling of loneliness, wonder, and lack of identity in that marginal world between twilight and sleep." With Barber's ...

Now that the music world has paid bicentennial tribute to Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, it's time to sing Happy 100th Birthday to Samuel Barber. The American composer of neo-Romantic music ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) found his musical voice early on. From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a ...

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 ...

On Feb. 28, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony performs a program including Samuel Barber’s 1943 “Commando March,” written shortly after Barber was drafted into World War II. With his burgeoning ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Johanna Keller SAMUEL BARBER’S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower ...

Every song Barber is known to have written is brought to life by 10 UK singers, including Nicky Spence and Mary Bevan Writing songs brought out the best in Samuel Barber. He had an ear for good texts ...

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 ...