Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
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Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
Barbara B. Heyman is a musicologist who has written extensively about Samuel Barber. An accomplished pianist and violinist, she was educated at Barnard College, holds an MSSW degree from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Music History from the City University of New York. She has written numerous articles for scholarly journals and encyclopedias, as well as "Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works" (OUP, 2012), the first thematic catalogue of an American composer. The second edition of her definitive biography, "Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music," was published in February 2020.
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Capricorn Conversations
Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
