Samuel Barber

INTRODUCTION 1. BEGINNINGS 2. A SERIOUS STUDENT The Curtis Institute of Music, Scalero, Menotti, First publications, Three Songs 3. DISCOVERIES Summers in Europe, the Menotti family, Serenade for String Quartet, Violin Sonata, Piano Concerto, Organ Prelude and Fugue, Interludes for Piano, Carillon pieces 4. UNCERTAINTIES Overture to The School for Scandal, Dover Beach, Composer as singer 5. INDEPENDENCE Cello Sonata, Music for a Scene from Shelley, Incidental Music for One Day of Spring 6. THE AMERICAN ACADEMY Symphony in One Movement, Chamber Music, String Quartet 7. RECOGNITION The Toscanini premieres: Essay for Orchestra, and the Adagio for Strings, Choral works 8. PRELUDE TO WAR Violin Concerto, Four Songs, Second Essay 9. WORLD CATACLYSM Commando March, Funeral March, Second Symphony, Night Flight, Four Excursions, Capricorn Concerto 10. MIDDLE YEARS Cello Concerto, Medea, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Piano Sonata 11. COMPOSER AS CONDUCTOR 12. SONG CYCLES Melodies passagères, Souvenirs, Hermit Songs, "Adventure" 13. SEARCHES Prayers of Kierkegaard, Summer Music, "Horizon" 14. VANESSA 15. INTERLUDE Wondrous Love, Nocturne, A Hand of Bridge, Toccata Festiva, Die Natali 16. LINCOLN CENTER COMMISSIONS Piano Concerto, Andromache's Farewell 17. A NEW OPERA HOUSE Antony and Cleopatra 18. THE LAST YEARS Despite and Still, Choral works, Mutations from Bach, The Lovers, Fadograph of a Yestern Scene, Three Songs, Ballade, Third Essay, Canzonetta for Oboe and String Orchestra POSTLUDE Works List Bibliography Notes Index,