Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price.

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worl

An annotated reference guide to Barber's life, works and achievements, it will prove valuable for anyone seeking information on him.

Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how

Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time.