Samuel Barber (young) Samuel Barber (composing) Samuel Barber (with score) Samuel Barber (drinking tea, smiling) Samuel Barber at piano Samuel Barber
Loneliness & Wonder
As On A Darkling Plain
Samuel Barber
(1910-1981)
  • Biography
  • Artwork
Artwork
 Serenade for String Quartet, Op. 1
(1930)
Music by Samuel Barber
 Dover Beach, Op. 3
(1931)
Text: Matthew Arnold
Music: Samuel Barber
 Bessie Bobtail, Op. 2 no. 3
(1934)
Text: James Stephens
Music: Samuel Barber
text from The Hill Of Vision
 Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
(1935)
Text: James Joyce
Music: Samuel Barber
text from Chamber Music
 String Quartet, Op. 11
(1936)
Music: Samuel Barber
 Three Songs, Op. 2
(1936)
Music: Samuel Barber
 A Nun Takes the Veil
(1937)
Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Music: Samuel Barber
 Four Songs, Op. 13
(1940)
Music: Samuel Barber
 Sure On This Shining Night, Op. 13, no. 3
(1940)
Text: James Agee
Music: Samuel Barber
text from Permit Me Voyage
 Nocturne, Op. 13, no. 4
(1940)
Text: Frederic Prokosch
Music: Samuel Barber
 Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
(1947)
Text: James Agee
Music: Samuel Barber
 Hermit Songs
(1953)
Music: Samuel Barber
 The Heavenly Banquet
(1953)
Music: Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber works are featured in these Loneliness & Wonder events:
Thursday May 7
7:30 pAs On A Darkling Plain
Friday May 8
7:30 pGreek Fire
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