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
Santa Maria a Vico, province of Teramo built. The interior houses 14th-century frescoes, in poor state of conservation, depicting an "Enthroned Madonna and Child", an "Annunciation", another "Madonna with Child", a half-length "Blessing Christ inside a clypeus (shield)", and a "Saint John the Evangelist". The portal is carved with the Agnus Dei surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists: as well as floral and geometric motives. Santa Maria a Vico, province of Teramo Santa Maria a Vico is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located near the town of Sant’Omero, province of Teramo, region of Abruzzo, Italy. Tradition holds the church was built before the year 1000, atop