When director Nisha Ganatra started planning “Late Night,” the new Emma Thompson-Mindy Kaling film about a failing late-night network talk show, she knew she’d need a house band and a theme for the ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the greatest classical American composers of the 20th century. His music is greatly loved for its rich complexity, depth of feeling, and beautiful craftsmanship.

Of the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, I preferred the aching beauty of Moonlight and the bleak intensity of Hell or High Water to the arduous story of a grieving family in Kenneth Lonergan’s ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) found his musical voice early on. From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a ...

The tunesmith previously worked with Lonergan on his debut feature "You Can Count on Me" (2000), and knew that in addition to her score, the soundtrack would feature a wide variety of classical music, ...

Composer Stephen Barber sits at his spot at the bar of Enoteca, on South Congress Avenue. He’s — well, dapper’s not the word — but Barber seems effortlessly comfortable in a dress shirt with the ...

In 1941, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered a new violin concerto by West Chester-born composer Samuel Barber. The piece is now considered one of the finest violin concertos of the 20th century. As ...