NEW VIDEO ALERT - Enjoy our moving performance of Samuel Barber’s "Agnus Dei," a beloved favorite among choral music lovers, recorded at our October 2024 concert, "A Choral Tapestry." Barber first wrote Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 in 1936 as the second movement of his String Quartet in B minor, and the orchestral version quickly became one of the most recognizable and emotionally powerful pieces of 20th-century music. Then in 1967, nearly 30 years later, Barber created this choral version of the