Having worked with Barbara at the Ash Grove in the Sixties, she was always a consummate professional and I wish that I had the opportunity of doing a better job as her accompanist at the time. She was warm, easy to work with, always gracious and tolerant of my problems which were considerable at the time.

I've always admired her as an artist and her politics matches my own views today. I think that she and Irwin were a good match and I miss his him and his writing.