Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute
- ISBN-10
- 1580463509
- ISBN-13
- 9781580463508
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Rochester Press
- Author
- Peter Dickinson
Description
Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price.
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