Samuel Barber: “Hounded by Success” (with Howard Pollack)

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0:00 Introduction
0:34 I: West Chester
3:09 II: Curtis
8:45 III: Gian Carlo
12:39 IV: Emergence
23:21 V: Europhilia
32:05 VI: The War
44:22 VII: The Barber Sound
55:48 VIII: Antony and Cleopatra
1:10:29 IX: The Barber Legacy

📚 Sources/further reading:
“Samuel Barber: His Life and Legacy” by Howard Pollack (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
“Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music” by Barbara B. Heyman (Oxford, 1992)
“Who’s Afraid of the American Middlebrow? Samuel Barber, Modernist Discourse, and the Great Divide” by Alison Sall (MA thesis, Michigan State, 2021)
“The Solo Piano Music of Samuel Barber” by Lauri L. Young (DMA thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1989)
“A Comparative Analysis of Samuel Barber’s Third Essay for Orchestra, Op. 47” by David Abrams Gordon (DMA dissertation, University of South Carolina, 2023)
“Aspects of Form in the Solo Keyboard Works of Samuel Barber” by James Parkinson Fairleigh (MM thesis, University of Southern California, 1965)
“Dissonance Treatment in the Instrumental Music of Samuel Barber” by Lawrence Samuel Wathen (PhD dissertation, Northwestern, 1960)
“SAMUEL BARBER, COMPOSER, DEAD; TWICE WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE” by Donal Henahan (The New York Times, Jan. 24, 1981, Sec. 1 P. 1): https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/24/ob...
“Samuel Barber: Serendipitous Discoveries,” lecture by Barbara B. Heyman: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688960/
“John Barrows: Biography” https://www.windsongpress.com/brass%2...
Billy Joel - Q&A: Could You Write A Piece Of Music Now? (CW Post 1996):    • Billy Joel - Q&A: Could You Write A Piece ...  

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Music (all by Samuel Barber):

First Essay for Orchestra, Op.12, performed by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert [sIRTPAv-LTw]
Overture to “The School for Scandal,” Op. 5, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada [v48hRxjvWmM]
Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Minor, Op. 6, performed by Guy Johnston and Chiao-Wen Cheng [6Uk7wXS7GrI]
Symphony No. 1 (In One Movement), Op. 9, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop [vHGMM3C4SJc]
Prayers of Kierkegaard, Op. 30, premiere performance by Leontyne Price, Jean Kraft, Edward Munro, the Boston Cecilia Society Chorus, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch [AcFYTQHKtB4]
String Quartet, Op. 11, Mvt. II “Molto adagio,” performed by the Dover Quartet [lKrxPTePXEQ]
Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17, performed by the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Leonard Slatkin [34NThn0cZE8]
Piano Sonata, Op. 26, performed by John Browning [0ym2yftkooM]
Commando March, performed by “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band conducted by Capt. Ryan Nowlin [MB0sNKJdXa0]
Symphony No. 2 “Flight Symphony,” Op. 19, performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Phillips [tysSEQt1q-A]
Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21, performed by Boris Bizjak, Sorin Crudu, Franci Kosem, and Ensemble Dissonance conducted by Dmitry Sitkovetsky [KwkUfXuYsIw]
Medea, Op. 23, performed by the Atlantic Sinfonietta conducted by Andrew Schenck [XgtZCKQRDBM]
Summer Music, Op. 31, performed by Amy Porter, Nancy Ambrose King, Chad Burrow, Jeffrey Lyman, and Adam Unsworth [oSuvxBCUDOw]
Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Op. 24, performed by Golda Schultz and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Tarmo Petokoski [OZqQNFOv0Ag]
Hermit Songs, Op. 29, performed by Emily Edmonds and Jack Symonds [u3hW49Xl5eE]
Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, performed by the Westminster Choir and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra conducted by Gian Carlo Menotti [bDblTQrOtx8 & T9cB344i7Sw]
The Lovers, Op. 43, performed by Gregorio González and the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus conducted by David Chase [NGlZy2l-9hI]
Fadograph of a Yestern Scene, Op. 44, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Schenck [hbQoSLx4XbU]
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