This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In November 1938, conductor Arturo ...

In 2004, a competition by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme set out to find “the saddest music in the world” and was won by Barber’s Adagio for Strings – receiving 52% of the public votes, ahead of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Symphony No. 5 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Adagio for Strings Manfred Honeck, Conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer ...

American composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) won the Pulitzer Prize twice — once for his opera Vanessa in 1957 and again for his 1962 piano concerto. One of the most celebrated conductors of the last ...