A late song cycle of his, which includes a setting of an excerpt from Joyce's Ulysses entitled "Solitary Hotel" and three set
A late song cycle of his, which includes a setting of an excerpt from Joyce's Ulysses entitled "Solitary Hotel" and three settings of Robert Graves, is entitled Despite and Still. The poetry collection Permit Me Voyage provides the text for another song, "Sure on This Shining Night." A composition for soprano and orchestra sets excerpts from a prose work written by the same author, James Agee, and is entitled Knoxville: Summer of 1915. He is more famous for his The School for Scandal overture and an orchestral arrangement of a movement of his first string quartet, which he also arranged as a choral setting of the Agnus Dei. FTP, identify this composer of Adagio for Strings.
A late song cycle of his, which includes a setting of an excerpt from Joyce's Ulysses entitled "Solitary Hotel" and three settings of Robert Graves, is entitled Despite and Still.
Samuel Barber