Overview

Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price. 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. Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, has written or editednumerous books about twentieth-century music, including CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage (University of Rochester Press) and three books published by Boydell Press: The Music of Lennox Berkeley; Copland Connotations; and Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter.

Full Product Details

Author:   Peter Dickinson
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   University of Rochester Press
Volume:   v. 74
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9781580463508

ISBN 10:   1580463509
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   01 April 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Foreword by John Corigliano About the 1981 BBC Interviews by Arthur Johnson Acknowledgements The Formative Years Reception in England Samuel Barber Interviewed by James Fassett (1949) Samuel Barber Interviewed by Robert Sherman (1978) Samuel Barber Interviewed by Allan Kozinn (1979) Gian Carlo Menotti: Interview with Peter Dickinson, Yester House, Gifford, Scotland, April 6, 1981 Charles Turner: Interview with Peter Dickinson, New York City, May 13, 1981 Aaron Copland: Interview with Peter Dickinson, Rock Hill, Peekskill, NY, May 11, 1981 William Schuman: Interview with Peter Dickinson, 888 Park Avenue, New York City, May 14, 1981 Virgil Thomson: Interview with Peter Dickinson, Chelsea Hotel, New York City, May 12, 1981 Leontyne Price: Interview with Peter Dickinson, New York City, May 14, 1981 John Browning: Interview with Peter Dickinson, New York City, May 13, 1981 Robert White: Interview with Arthur Johnson, London, February 1981 H. Wiley Hitchcock: Interview with Peter Dickinson, 1192 Park Avenue, New York City, May 10, 1981 Hans W. Heinsheimer: Interview with Peter Dickinson, New York City, May 13, 1981 Edward P. Murphy: Interview with Peter Dickinson, New York City, May 12, 1981 Postscript 2005: Orlando Cole: Interview with Peter Dickinson, Philadelphia, October 13, 2005 Selected Bibliography General Index Index of Works by Samuel Barber

Reviews

As a biographer, I find Peter Dickinson's beautifully annotated book of interviews an indispensable resource. Dickinson, a composer himself, brings a unique perspective to the interviews: his penetrating questions yield a vivid and sympathetic portrait of Samuel Barber through the eyes of those who knew him best-friends, performers, lovers, his publisher, and colleagues. A moving tribute to one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. --Barbara Heyman, author of Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music A unique and valuable addition to the existing literature on a remarkably gifted musician. British musicologist Peter Dickinson applies his considerable talents to create a scholarly and absorbing portrait of Barber, as he has done previously with Copland and Cage. Samuel Barber Remembered brings together the memoirs of many who knew and worked with Barber, among them Leontyne Price, William Schuman, and Gian Carlo Menotti. The result is an absorbing and intimate portrait of one of the finest creative musical figures of our time. --Vivian Perlis, biographer of Aaron Copland; founding director of the Oral History, American Music archive at Yale School of Music Should appeal both to academics, with its copious footnotes, and to general music lovers, with its wealth of anecdotes... Shows how crucial (Barber and Menotti's) relationship was to both composers' artistic development.- Wall Street Journal Europe

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions