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5 days ago · American composer Samuel Barber died on this day in 1981, 36 years ago – aged 70. His signature works include 'Adagio for Strings' and his Violin Concerto Op. 14 - a much-loved standard in today's concert and competition repertoire.
5 days ago · At its first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1966, Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra acquired a reputation as a mythic turkey that, 42 years later, it still hasn’t lived down.
3 days ago · The wealthy patron and founder of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music had decided to provide the Academy of Music, the orchestra’s home at the time, with a pipe organ. Additionally, Zimbalist would commission Samuel Barber, the esteemed American composer who had enrolled in Curtis’ first class in 1924, to write a piece for the ...
15 hours ago · Orquestra Acadêmica da UCS, em Concerto Clássico Solidário, realizado em 12/06/2024 na Catedral Santa Teresa, Caxias do Sul - RS.Uma visão mais próxima de mi...
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2 days ago · Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber. If you’re looking for the soundtrack to sorrow, look no further than Barber’s powerful Adagio. Premiered in 1938, the piece now occupies a space as America’s ultimate classical tear-jerker.
3 days ago · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. It is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond. The character of Sweeney Todd first appeared in a Victorian penny dreadful titled The String of Pearls.
1 day ago · Weekend Brunch. Broadcast 8h ago. Play. 3h 54m. Brought to you by. ABC Classic. Presented by. Greta Bradman. The music you know and love: ease into your weekend with a playlist of classical ...
