Erle Stanley Gardner might have called it ”The Case of the Suppressed Symphony.” The mystery is why Samuel Barber, the American composer whose ”Adagio for Strings” made him world-famous, abruptly ...

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.

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The famous "Three B's" of classical music are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Stick with those, and you can't go wrong. But in Grand Rapids this weekend, the Three B's are Barber, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernstein, Barber and buddies were terrific symphonists, but what about their lesser-known 20th-century compatriots? Gerard Schwarz flies the flag for music that deserves wider acclaim For the most ...