Samuel Barber archive
Listen Building A Career On Barber, The Enigmatic American
October 30, 2010 – Conductor Marin Alsop discovers there's more to Samuel Barber than his famed Adagio.
Listen The Saddest Music In The World: 6 Tunes To Make You Teary-Eyed
September 27, 2010 – What's the saddest music you know? Hear the finest of the forlorn and the best of the bereaved.
Listen Classical Fans Tell Stories Of 'First Loves'
September 23, 2010 – Name your first favorite piece of classical music? The query launched a blog and a flood of stories.
Listen Samuel Barber At 100, Reconsidered
March 9, 2010 – Barber wasn't afraid to use traditional tonality in his works, despite scathing critical reviews.
Listen Barber's 'Adagio': Naked Expression Of Emotion
March 9, 2010 – From sorrow, the music builds to a climax of intensity, and finally reaches serene acceptance.
Read Suds And Sensibility: Barber's Violin Concerto APM
March 9, 2010 – One of the best-loved concertos was commissioned by a soap tycoon. Hear it performed in concert. APM
Read The Life And Music Of Samuel Barber
March 5, 2010 – Hear Barber discuss his own music and listen to some of his essential recordings.
Read Cliburn Competition Awards Two Gold Medals
June 7, 2009 – Hear the Gold Medalists at the Cliburn Competition, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas.
Listen Classical Teens: Making Music in Maryland
May 7, 2008 – Bethesda's high-tech concert hall hosts young musicians playing music by Barber and Debussy.
Listen Samuel Barber's Summertime Idyll APM
May 2, 2008 – The composer distills the idea of home and family in a reflective setting for soprano and orchestra. APM
Read The New York Philharmonic Plays Pyongyang
February 26, 2008 – In an act of symphonic diplomacy, the orchestra pays a visit to the North Korean capital.
Listen New York Philharmonic Set for North Korea Show
February 25, 2008 – The group is slated to perform Wagner, Dvorak and Gershwin for the historic occasion.
Listen The Impact of Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'
November 4, 2006 – The 1938 premiere came at a turbulent time for the world, and for conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Listen Organ Music: Pulling Out All the Stops
June 5, 2006 – Unraveling the complexities and the mysteries of the what Mozart called the king of instruments.