Adagio for Strings Adagio for Strings Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arguably his best known, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet. It was performed for the first time on November 5, 1938, by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast from NBC Studio 8H. Toscanini also played the piece on his South American tour with the NBC Symphony in 1940. Its reception was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that "Adagio for
Copyright status of The Wizard of Oz and related works in the United States collaborated with Chris Dulabone to release an English translation of "The Yellow Fog" in 1986. The two writers then adapted "The Seven Underground Kings" into "The Underground Kings of Oz" in 1993. Both of these works, while clearly infringing on Volkov's works, were legal in the US at the time. This preceded Russia's accession to the Berne convention, and the US did not recognize the copyright on any Russian work published before 1973 ("The Yellow Fog" and "The Seven Underground Kings" were published in 1970 and 1964, respectively). The copyright on the 1910 film entered public domain in 1938. Baum's