The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961

ISBN-13: 9780198163770 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 352 str.

Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies; David Pear

Opis

Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's "American" years, 1914-61. These letters are fascination 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.

Recenzje

Gillies and Pear have assembled not a chronicle but rather a series of snapshots of Grainger at important points along his life's journey ... they have been remarkably successful in distilling the essence of this most colourful and complicated of the twentieth century's musical personalities ... The appearance of this well-researched, skilfully compiled and handsomely presented collection marks a further step along the road to the recognition which Grainger so earnestly believed was his due.

O autorze

Malcolm Gillies has written widely on twentieth-century music, including many books on Béla Bartók, including Bartók in Britain: A Guided Tour (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), Notation and Tonal Structure in Bartók's Later Works (New York: Garland, 1989), and Bartók Remembered (Faber & Faber, 1990, New York W.W. Norton's, 1991), and is editor of The Life and Music of Béla Bartók, by Halsey Stevens (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993), and The Bartók Companion (Faber & Faber, January 1994). He lives in Queensland, Australia. David Pear, a theologian and educator, worked as as Senior Research Assistant on the Grainger Letters project between 1990 and 1992, and also lives in Queensland, Australia.