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

Samuel Barber’s three mid-century concertos — for violin, piano and cello — formed a centerpiece of this summer’s Aspen Music Festival Theme, “Being American,” the final two coming in featured ...

Peter Martins created his Barber Violin Concerto to Samuel Barber’s 1941 Violin Concerto, Opus 14, which has become one of the 20th century’s most frequently performed concertos. The ballet, which ...

Samuel Barber’s 1939 Violin Concerto, perhaps the greatest example of the genre written by an American composer, will be the centerpiece in the second classical concert of the Springfield Symphony ...

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Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto in three concerts this weekend with the Colorado Symphony. The Barber piece is a cornerstone of Akiko Meyers’ repertoire. She ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...

Violinist Paul Huang was in the Tucson audience last March when the Escher Quartet performed the world premiere of Chris Rogerson’s String Quartet No. 4. This weekend he will be across the courtyard ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...