The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961 Hardcover - 1994
by Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies (Editor); David Pear (Editor)
From the rear cover
Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. As a pianist and largely self-taught composer he was feted in the 1910s and the 1920s, and is probably still best known for the work he 'dished up' in many different guises, Country Gardens. But Grainger aspired to the role of 'the all-round man' and nourished ideas, some brilliant, others ludicrous, across the full range of human endeavour: race, nationality, sex, language, life-style, food, clothes, technology, ecology. The All-Round Man depicts that scrabbling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's 'American' years, 1914-61. These letters are fascinating to read: they are cultivated 'rambles' (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephone conversations. Often written in Grainger's crunchy 'Blue-eyed English', they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world.
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- Title The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
- Author Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies (Editor); David Pear (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarendon Press, Oxford
- Date 1994-12-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780198163770 / 0198163770
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Grainger, Percy - Correspondence, Composers - Correspondence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012799
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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