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How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

Samuel Barber

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Samuel Barber
Age: 70 †
Born: 1910
Born: March 9
Died: 1981
Died: January 23
Composer
Musicologist
Pianist
Westchester
Pennsylvania
Samuel Osborne Barber II
Samuel Osborne Barber
Mint
Awful
Dinner
Society
Artist
Become
Nothing

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