This composer used the same instruments from the second Brandenburg concerto for his Capricorn Conce
This composer used the same instruments from the second Brandenburg concerto for his Capricorn Concerto. This composer has a flute and a harp play a theme imitating a rocking chair at the beginning of one work, and he used the poem "The Monk and his Cat" in his song cycle written for Leontyne Price, Hermit Songs. Staccato horns represent a streetcar in a piece ending when the soprano sings about a child being tucked into bed. He was inspired by "Prometheus Unbound" to write Music for a Scene from Shelley and he adapted a James Agee piece for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This composer of the opera Vanessa rearranged the second movement of his String Quartet No. 1 to create a piece that was played over radio announcements of FDR's death. For 10 points, name this American composer of Adagio for Strings.
This composer used the same instruments from the second Brandenburg concerto for his Capricorn Concerto.
Samuel Osborne Barber