Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute

✍ Scribed by Peter Dickinson

• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Samuel Barber is one of America's most popular classical composers. His widely beloved works include Adagio for Strings and Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The main source for Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute is a panoply of vivid and eminently readable interviews by Peter Dickinson for a BBC Radio 3 documentary in 1981. The interviewees include Barber's friends, fellow composers, and performers, notably Gian Carlo Menotti, Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson, soprano Leontyne Price, and pianist John Browning. The book also includes three of the very few interviews extant with Barber himself. Dickinson contributes substantial chapters on Barber's early life and on Barber's reception in England. The book has a foreword by the distinguished composer and admirer of Barber, John Corigliano.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
About the 1981 BBC Interviews
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Peter Dickinson on Samuel Barber
1 The Formative Years
2 Reception in England
Part 2 Samuel Barber
3 Samuel Barber Interviewed by James Fassett (1949)
4 Samuel Barber Interviewed by Robert Sherman (1978)
5 Samuel Barber Interviewed by Allan Kozinn (1979)
Part 3 Friends
6 Gian Carlo Menotti
7 Charles Turner
Part 4 Composers
8 Aaron Copland
9 William Schuman
10 Virgil Thomson
Part 5 Performers
11 Leontyne Price
12 John Browning
13 Robert White
Part 6 Publishers and Critics
14 H. Wiley Hitchcock
15 Hans W. Heinsheimer
16 Edward P. Murphy
Postscript 2005 Orlando Cole
Selected Bibliography
General Index
Index of Works by Samuel Barber

✦ Subjects

Music; Composers; Musicology; History and Criticism; American Music; Twentieth Century