The New York Times described him as "a calm, reticent man whose white hair and handsome head lent him in his later years the look of a Roman senator".
Source: New York Times archive
23.1.16
23/1/81: Samuel Barber dies
On Friday 23 September, American composer Samuel Barber (b. 1910) died in his New York apartment. He had twice won the Pulitzer Prize and his Adagio for Strings has become one of the most popular works in the orchestral canon.
The New York Times described him as "a calm, reticent man whose white hair and handsome head lent him in his later years the look of a Roman senator".
Source: New York Times archive
The New York Times described him as "a calm, reticent man whose white hair and handsome head lent him in his later years the look of a Roman senator".
Source: New York Times archive
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