How did Samuel Barber's stirring, lush work for strings — music that has become America's semi-official music of mourning — morph into a... From Funerals To Festivals, The Curious Journey Of The ...

When the New York Philharmonic travels to Hanoi for it's debut performance in Vietnam this October, there will be a unique number on their set list. Reuters reports that the orchestra will play, ...

ART can often be both deeply beautiful and intensely sad. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (which played in the background of Oliver Stone's gripping 1986 masterpiece Platoon) springs to mind as a ...

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is considered one of the most popular of all 20th-century classical works. Its 1938 premiere by the NBC... The Impact of Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' The Impact ...

This new book about Samuel Barber’s famous, eloquently mournful “Adagio for Strings” is 262 pages long. About one-fourth of those pages are eminently worthy of the music lovers’ careful attention. In ...

My travel is mostly by car, and I listen to one of three things: First, Nebraska Public Radio, which I can listen to all across Nebraska. Second, XM Radio either the Broadway station, or 40’s music.

Even the Chicago Symphony’s rangiest programs are seldom as varied as the one conductor Daniela Candillari brought to Symphony Center on Friday. The most familiar work on the program, Samuel Barber’s ...