“Après un rêve,” Op. 7, No. 1 is a romantic song published in 1878 and is about a dream of romantic flight with a lover, away from the earth and “Towards the light” and wants desperately to return to ...

Continuing our series on love songs, KCUR announcer Danie Alexander shares a bit about the audio intensity of a piece by composer Samuel Barber. "It's so lush. It starts out so beautifully," Alexander ...

– Three Songs Op 2; Four Songs Op 13; Three Songs Op 10; Dover Beach; String Quartet No 1; Hermit Songs; Three Songs Op 45 And its continued popularity – it was voted the saddest music in the world by ...

This pair of double albums, one devoted to the songs of Samuel Barber and the other to the rags of William Bolcom, illuminate two fascinating bits of 20th Century American classical music. Barber ...

One of the 20th century’s significant composers is being remembered today for his 100th birthday. Samuel Barber was born in West Chester in 1910, studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in ...

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 ...