On Feb. 28, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony performs a program including Samuel Barber’s 1943 “Commando March,” written shortly after Barber was drafted into World War II. With his burgeoning ...

With its dual strains of Romantic lyricism and 20th-century modernism, Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto always seems to span two worlds. This weekend’s Symphony Silicon Valley concert brings the ...

The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra opens its 2025-26 season with a program featuring masterworks by Ludwig van Beethoven and Samuel Barber and a contemporary work by a doctoral composition student.

In 2019, an excellent classical music blog called The Listeners' Club devoted a post to Samuel Barber's violin concerto. At the end of the article, there is a list of five essential recordings of the ...

Nature can be red in tooth and claw some other time. On Thursday night in Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explored some of the cozier and more welcoming ...

Both these composers are going through some revival these days. While Samuel Barber, who died only 10 years ago, has hardly suffered eclipse – his Adagio for Strings has long been a staple, for ...