The American composer Samuel Barber wrote some of the most passionate, open-sounding, and uniquely North American music of the twentieth-century (I prefer him one hundred times to Aaron Copland). One of his most vibrant works is his Overture to The School for Scandal, his graduation piece for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. It’s a remarkably mature and knowledgeable piece, and Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony give it a rousing go here.
Concerto Infinito 