In 1941, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered a new violin concerto by West Chester-born composer Samuel Barber. The piece is ...

Samuel Barber and Johannes Brahms … two expert craftsmen of composition. Brahms’ symphonic masterpiece, Symphony No. 2 in D, will be coupled with Barber’s lyrical and passionate Violin Concerto and ...

With its dual strains of Romantic lyricism and 20th-century modernism, Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto always seems to span two worlds. This weekend’s Symphony Silicon Valley concert brings the ...

Erle Stanley Gardner might have called it ”The Case of the Suppressed Symphony.” The mystery is why Samuel Barber, the American composer whose ”Adagio for Strings” made him world-famous, abruptly ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The famous "Three B's" of classical music are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Stick with those, and you can't go wrong. But in Grand Rapids this weekend, the Three B's are Barber, ...

Nature can be red in tooth and claw some other time. On Thursday night in Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explored some of the cozier and more welcoming ...

In 2019, an excellent classical music blog called The Listeners' Club devoted a post to Samuel Barber's violin concerto. At the end of the article, there is a list of five essential recordings of the ...

Both these composers are going through some revival these days. While Samuel Barber, who died only 10 years ago, has hardly suffered eclipse – his Adagio for Strings has long been a staple, for ...