{"product_id":"samuel-barber-the-composer-and-his-music-9780195066500","title":"Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century. Barber wrote in a great variety of musical forms--symphonies  concertos  operas  vocal music  chamber music--but is best known by such compositions as the Adagio for Strings  the orchestral song Knoxville: Summer of 1915  his piano and violin concertos  and his two operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra the second of which opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Covering Barbers career and all of his published and unpublished works  this is the only book based upon primary sources: his own letters and those written to or about him  his sketchbooks  his original musical manuscripts  and interviews with friends  colleagues  and performers who were directly involved with him. The biographical material on Barber is closely interspersed with a discussion of his music. Displaying Barbers creative processes at work from his early student compositions to his mature masterpieces  Heyman provides the social context in which a major composer such as Barber moved: his education  how he built his areer  the evolving musical tastes of American audiences  his relationship to musical giants like Serge Koussevitsky  and the role of radio in the promotion of his music. Samuel Barber stands as a model biography of an important American musical figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651790299189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195066502","price":102.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195066500.jpg?v=1781840870","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/samuel-barber-the-composer-and-his-music-9780195066500","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}