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Composer of the Week: Barber

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With Donald Macleod. 2: EarlyMaturity Barber had a high regard for European culture, and his composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia gave him a strong grounding in the European 19th-century Romantic tradition. This he cemented through regulartripsto Europe, and through his close personal and professional relationship with Italian-
American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Summer Music HaffnerWind Ensemble Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 1 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
Cello Sonata, Op 6 (1st mvt)
Yehuda Hanani , Michelle Levin (piano) Three Songs, Op 10 Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Overture: The School for Scandal, Op 5 Detroit SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Rosario Scalero
Unknown:
Gian Carlo Menotti.
Unknown:
Yehuda Hanani
Piano:
Michelle Levin
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Baritone:
Roger Vignoles
Source: Radio Times

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