RAVEL - BARBER - CHAIKOVSKY’ CROSSINGS

The first symphony by an American composer to be performed in 1937 at the Salzburg Festival, Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1 is a link between Europe and America: composed in Roquebrune in the French Alps, it is dedicated to his companion, the Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and had its American premiere in January by the Cleveland Orchestra. As for Symphony No. 4, it ushered in a period of recognition of Tchaikovsky's talent as a leading musical figure, pending the imminent acquisition...