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._