Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” is one of those works that can be fatally easy to condescend to. With its heart-on-sleeve emotionalism and its moody tonal harmonies, the piece is the go-to choice for ...

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The Virginia Symphony Orchestra opens its 100th Anniversary season with the orchestral premiere of Adagio by Eminent Scholar and professor emeritus of music at Old Dominion University Adolphus ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Johanna Keller SAMUEL BARBER’S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower ...

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In the second of a five-part series produced by independent producer Ben Manilla and Media Mechanics, Weekend All Things Considered looks at recordings recently selected for the Library of Congress' ...

In October 1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler’s ambiguous, much reviled association with the Nazi regime was reaching its end; in January 1945 he finally fled. The valedictory intensity of this famous recording ...

Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59, "Für Elise" Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27:2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio Sostenuto Sonata No. 5 in F Major for Violin and ...