stealth
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stealth
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n.
cautious and surreptitious action or movement:
the silence and stealth of a hungry cat
why did you slip away by stealth like this?
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adj.
(chiefly of aircraft) designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar or sonar difficult:
a stealth bomber.
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secretive; trying to avoid notice:
she has been ducking the press as befits a stealth candidate.
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The Cosmopolitan American.(Samuel Barber)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. Despite some modest...get away with." Barber's fortune and misfortune...entitled Music of Samuel Barber (EMI 49463...Adagio, arranged by Barber for Arturo Toscanini...minutes the essence of Samuel Barber. It begins...
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SAMUEL BARBER'S SECOND WORK FOR BAND, FUNERAL MARCH (BASED ON THE ARMY AIR CORPS SONG)
Magazine article from: Journal of Band Research; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Many musicians know Samuel Barber's Commando March as his only work...personal and professional development for Barber. After Barber's early success with...in the early Forties. As a result, Samuel Barber's career as a composer was...
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Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten-A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives) (w/CD)
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten-A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music...of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber, were similar in many ways. Both were born early in the century, developed...
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Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten - A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives) (w/CD).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten--A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their...of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber, were similar in many ways. Both were born early in the century, developed...
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Songs by Samuel Barber.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 11/1/2007; ; 617 words
; SONGS BY SAMUEL BARBER Gerald Finley Hyperion CDA 67528 Montreal-born Gerald Finley reaffirms...persuasive and vivid account of 22 songs by the American composer, Samuel Barber. With the wide palette of colors he draws on in his mellifluous and...
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CLASSICAL RECORDINGS; Samuel Barber: From `Vanessa' to `School for Scandal'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/28/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...The Washington Opera will include Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" on its schedule for...opportune to take a long new look at Barber, who never abandoned the old romanticism...Vanessa" could be a key event in a Barber revival that has been taking place...
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After the disappearing act: Barber's Vanessa isn't the forgotten marvel they say it is--but it's a great vehicle for City Opera's star soprano.(CLASSICAL MUSIC)(Samuel Barber)(Opera review)
Magazine article from: New York; 11/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...a new member since Turandot, and Samuel Barber's Vanessa has spent almost 50 years...introverted for the modern age and Barber's score fatuously romantic. While...and human--but inert. VANESSA SAMUEL BARBER. NEW YORK CITY OPERA. THROUGH...
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Opera: Bleak opera house SAMUEL BARBER: VANESSA LYRIC STUDIO HAMMERSMITH
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/1999; ; 595 words
; ...years to arrive in the UK. Typical. Samuel Barber's Vanessa enjoyed a triumphant...notable above all for the frisson of Barber's wonderfully ambiguous harmonies...like subversive Chopin. Subversive Barber, though, I had not bargained for...
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The Music of Samuel Barber.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 4/1/2000; ; 521 words
; The Music of Samuel Barber. Vladimir Golschmann, Symphony of the Air; Antonio Janigro, I...presents an overview of short, popular works by American composer Samuel Barber. The program begins with four pieces played by the Symphony of the...
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ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR SAMUEL BARBER: SYMPHONIES 1 AND 2, "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL" OVERTURE, FIRST ESSAY FOR ORCHESTRA NAXOS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/7/2000; ; 437 words
; ...the complete orchestral works of Samuel Barber. It has entrusted the project to...while. This first disc contains Barber's First Symphony, launched by...may help accelerate the process. Barber was famous for his lush lyrical impulse...
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Barber, Samuel
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Samuel Barber Composer Completed First...Selected compositions Sources Samuel Barber is regarded as one...bent for piano and organ, Barber was a talented baritone...Marguerite McLeod Beatty and Samuel Leroy Barber. Education...
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Samuel Barber
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Barber Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was among the leading figures in 20th-century...one of the most recognized pieces in contemporary orchestral music. Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910, in West Chester, Pennsylvania...
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Howard Ferguson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...O.R. Morris) and piano (with Samuel). In the musical world, Ferguson...No. 1 was performed by Menges and Samuel. Ferguson continued to receive recognition...as good a song writer as Finzi or Samuel Barber. In another American Record Guide...
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Menotti, Gian Carlo
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...years. Scalero introduced Menotti to Samuel Barber, who agreed to help the new student...from Curtis with honors. He and Barber decided to move to Vienna, where they shared an apartment. Barber had left school early, but came...
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Upshaw, Dawn
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...exposure to opera—a production of Rossini's Barber of Seville —while she was in high school...American composers as John Harbison, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, and Charles Ives. A Fresh Approach to the Classics...
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