Agnus Dei (Barber) Agnus Dei (Barber) Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his "Adagio for Strings" (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes. Barber's "Adagio for Strings" began as the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936. At the request of Arturo Toscanini, he arranged it for string orchestra, and in January 1938 sent
Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes suicide clinic at a delayed time of her own choosing, while taking the opportunity to tour Zurich. The title of this story, Leberknödel, is a German dish of Liver Dumplings. The story is also presented in smaller sections; Introitus, Kyrie, Sequentia, offertorium, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei and Communio. Prometheus A transposition of the ancient Greek myth of theft of divine prerogatives, human hubris and retribution, in which Zeus is a corporate CEO, Athena is his glamorous daughter, Pandora is an upmarket sex worker and Prometheus and Epimetheus are advertising agency executives. Like his namesake Prometheus' liver is eaten daily; in