Samuel Barber - more than an adagio
In Sony's invaluable 39 CD Bruno Walter The Edition there is just one work composed after Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Samuel Barber's First Symphony in a 1945 recording made with the New York...
View ArticleThe Long Beach Symphony welcomes guest conductor Gemma New
The Long Beach Symphony will be welcoming New Zealand-born conductor and music director candidate Gemma New , who will be directing the orchestra on March 5. The concert will feature the music of...
View ArticleOne of the most imaginative talents in 1940s America
John McLaughlin Williams writes ~ Your recent post on Bruno Walter and Samuel Barber is very interesting, particularly your mention of Daniel Gregory Mason. He is utterly forgotten today despite his...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Samuel Barber In 1910 Samuel Barber was born. He was an American composer of orchestral, opera,...
View ArticleOverture! Light the lights!
On this day across opera history, four major works premiered. (The cher public are invited to post their favorite clips from these various operas.) On this day in 1842 Verdi’s Nabucco premiered in...
View ArticleClassical music: Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky performs Samuel Barber’s...
ALERT: University Opera’s production of “Transformations,” with dark and adult takes on fairy-tale by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Anne Sexton and music by Conrad Susa , gets a rave...
View ArticleKSO This Week: Pictures at an Exhibition and Barber Violin Concerto
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition Guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos; guest violinist Elena Urioste Thursday, March 17, and Friday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. Tennessee Theatre,...
View ArticleRecordings Vanessa Cover 316
W HAT AMERICAN OPERA has ever had as superb a cast album as Samuel Barber's Vanessa ? In the months following the work's Met world premiere, in January 1958, the great Dimitri Mitropoulos recorded the...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleCream Classics event will see dance and classical music collide in final...
It was, indeed, the huge acclaim of William Orbit's Adagio for Strings, in 1995, taken from Samuel Barber's second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, which reminded just how integral classical...
View ArticleIn this week's Knoxville Mercury: KSO Review 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, I review last weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concert featuring guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos. Violinist Elena Urioste appeared in the Samuel Barber...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Michael Nyman Happy birthday Michael Nyman! He is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist,...
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