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Background: Samuel Barber composed the Commando March in E flat major in Feb-1943. Die Natali was begun in July 1960 and completed that November. The piece draws on Christmas carols for its thematic ideas, putting them through a series of ingenious harmonic and contrapuntal devices as it does so. Barber began his Piano Concerto in March 1960. John Browning was the intended soloist from the outset, the work being written with his keyboard technique in mind. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 and the Music Critics’ Circle Award in 1964, the Piano Concerto marks the zenith of Barber’s public acclaim. The ballet Medea has a complex history. To a commission from Martha Graham, for the Second Annual Festival of Contemporary Music, Barber began work to a scenario entitled Cave of the Heart. The first version, completed in April and scored, like Copland’s Appalachian Spring, for thirteen instruments, was first performed at Columbia University on 10th May 1946, under the title Serpent Heart. The original title was reinstated for the New York première on 27th February 1947, by which time Barber had reworked the score into a seven-movement suite for full orchestra, preferring the title Medea, after the principal character. In 1955, he telescoped the suite into one continuous movement, Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance. |
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COMPOSER: Samuel Barber |
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- Nov-2002 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 2/3 star |
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