Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra, Second Essay, Third Essay, Medea`s Dance of Vengeance, Overture to The School for Scandal (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, cond.; ...

At the Seattle Symphony’s Thursday night concert at Benaroya Hall, conductor Ludovic Morlot began by explaining the connection among the three disparate works he had programmed. Barber’s Second Essay ...

Essay for Orchestra No. 1 Neeme Järvi, Conductor Detroit Symphony Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer Essay for Orchestra No. 2 Samuel Barber, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Detroit Symphony Orchestra ...

On Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, the Greenwich Symphony will perform the final concerts of its season with pianist Jon Nakamatsu performing Rachmaninoff's monumental Piano Concerto No. 2. The ...

Samuel Barber borrowed a literary theme when he wrote his Three Essays for Orchestra, a short work with a single idea. It wasn't new to him: Barber had tried the idea before with his Essay for Piano.