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    Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most...
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  • compositions by Samuel Barber sorted by genre, opus number, date of composition, and title. Finkelstein, Sidney (1991). Music of Samuel Barber (CD booklet)...
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  • Samuel Barber (1910–1981) was an American composer. Samuel Barber may also refer to: Samuel Barber (minister) (1738?–1811), Irish Presbyterian minister...
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    Strings is a work by Samuel Barber arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement...
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    Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set...
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    Francis Barber (c. 1742/3 – 13 January 1801), born Quashey, was the Jamaican manservant of Samuel Johnson in London from 1752 until Johnson's death in...
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    followed, including a recital at the Library of Congress with composer Samuel Barber on piano. Her 1955 televised performance of Puccini's Tosca, plus appearances...
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  • Samuel Barber completed his Violin Concerto, Op. 14, in 1939. It is a work in three movements, lasting about 22 minutes. In 1939, Philadelphia industrialist...
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    The Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26, by the American composer Samuel Barber, was commissioned for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the League of Composers...
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  • Sure on this shining night (category Song cycles by Samuel Barber)
    Sure on this shining night, op.13 no.3 is an art song by composer Samuel Barber from his 1938 song cycle Four Songs. The work's text is taken from James...
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  • in 1935–36 by Samuel Barber. Barber arranged the middle movement for string orchestra as his well-known Adagio for Strings in 1936. Barber continued to...
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  • Jan Václav Voříšek is a set of variations on the tune. The composer Samuel Barber published a setting of The Coolin in 1942 for unaccompanied chorus,...
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  • Samuel Barber (1738?–1811), was an Irish Presbyterian minister. He is best known for the way in which he threw himself into the political and ecclesiastical...
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  • The Piano Concerto, Op. 38, by Samuel Barber was commissioned by the music publishing company G. Schirmer in honor of the centenary of their founding...
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    and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli. It was based on the...
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  • September 12, 2012 Harmonia Mundi released Samuel Barber: An American Romantic (HMU 807522), choral music by Samuel Barber. The CD featured new chamber versions...
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  • Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 22, completed on 27 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos (the first being...
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  • During this time, Cole was a classmate and friend of the composer Samuel Barber, who dedicated his Cello Sonata, op. 6 to Cole. Mr. Cole and the composer...
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  • 1936 orchestral work by Samuel Barber. Adagio for Strings may also refer to: "Adagio for Strings", a 2000 version of Barber's work by William Orbit from...
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    Aquaria (b. 1996), drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 10 Samuel Barber (1910–1981), musical composer CKY, rock band CKY crew, group of skateboarders...
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    Symphony No. 3 1957: Norman Dello Joio, Meditations on Ecclesiastes 1958: Samuel Barber, Vanessa, opera 1959: John La Montaine, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 9...
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    the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Samuel Barber, composer Ann Blyth, actress Laura Branigan, singer Rick Carey, olympic...
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  • Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (category Compositions by Samuel Barber)
    Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, is a 1947 work for voice and orchestra by Samuel Barber, with text from a 1938 short prose piece by James Agee. The work was...
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  • Psalm 2, "Why fum'th in sight". John Coolidge Adams, Phrygian Gates Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, op. 11 "I Hear an Army", from Three Songs, op....
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    Vanessa (opera) (category Operas by Samuel Barber)
    Vanessa is an American opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber, opus 32, with an original English libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. It was...
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  • album Just Be. A Trance remake of the classical music composition by Samuel Barber, the track takes the melody of the aforementioned piece (which is in...
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  • the award has had several minor name changes. Composers John Adams, Samuel Barber, John Corigliano and Jennifer Higdon are tied for the most wins in this...
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  • in Italian?". Retrieved 2024-09-17. Heyman, Barbara B. (1994-05-12). Samuel Barber: the composer and his music. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 0-19-509058-6...
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  • to The School for Scandal, Op. 5, is a concert overture by Samuel Barber. It is Barber's first work for full orchestra, composed in 1931 while he was...
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  • is a short orchestral work composed by Samuel Barber in 1978. The score is dedicated to Audrey Sheldon. Barber's Third Essay for Orchestra was the eventual...
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