Eleanor Steber commissioned a piece by this man that features an  allegro agitato  section depicting the passage of an electric streetcar.
This composer wrote an  Elegy  for flute and piano for the flautist Manfred Ibel  (EE-bell)  that he later reworked into the second-movement  Canzone  of his piano concerto. Eleanor Steber commissioned a piece by this man that features an  allegro agitato  section depicting the passage of an electric streetcar. One of his works constantly shifts between 4/2, 5/2, 3/2, and 6/2 time signatures; that piece's main melody ascends and descends in overlapping three-note increments. Erika has an affair with (*)  Anatol in an opera by this man with a libretto by his life partner Gian Carlo Menotti. He arranged a movement from his 1936 string quartet into a piece that was played at FDR's funeral. For 10 points, name this American composer of Knoxville: Summer of 1915 ,  Vanessa , and the mournful  Adagio for Strings .
This composer wrote an  Elegy  for flute and piano for the flautist Manfred Ibel  (EE-bell)  
amuel  Barber  [or Samuel Osborne  Barber  II] 