For many, it was its use in the film Platoon. For others, it was William Orbit’s Pieces in a Modern Style project. But very few of us can claim to have first experienced Barber’s Adagio for Strings in ...

This year has seen a glut of important musical anniversaries. We've had Chopin aplenty, plus Schumann and Mahler to boot. Samuel Barber's centenary (1910-1981) has also fallen during this eventful ...

When Connie Sheehan's 22-year-old son was deployed to Iraq this spring, she and her sister, Kitti Sheehan, naturally began sending him care packages. But they soon found out that care packages were a ...