This composer borrowed from the "Streets of Laredo" when he wrote the solo piano piece Excursions.
This composer borrowed from the "Streets of Laredo" when he wrote the solo piano piece Excursions. He composed a cycle of ten songs for orchestra based on various poems by anonymous Irishmen in his Hermit Songs, and the house he shared with Gian ["John"] Carlo Menotti inspired his Capricorn Concerto. This composer wrote the overture to Richard Sheridan's School for Scandal, and he wrote music based on a story by James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915. One of his pieces was played after the deaths of people such as Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. Name this 20th century composer of the Adagio for Strings.
This composer borrowed from the "Streets of Laredo" when he wrote the solo piano piece Excursions.
Samuel Barber