American composer Samuel Barber began work on his First Symphony in 1935 when he was 25, which he would eventually call his “Symphony in One Movement” (though internally it’s structured like four ...

Colorado Symphony Plays BarberThe Violin Concerto, written in 1939-40 by the young American composer, Samuel Barber. This performance took place in Denver, with Peter Oundjian conducting the Colorado ...

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 ...

The last time Brian Lewis joined the Greenwich Symphony, in 2012, it was to lead the group in William Walton's Violin Concerto. This time around, he will be playing the violin concerto of a Walton ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The night starts off with Samuel Barber's ...