John Bird's acclaimed biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed...
John Bird's acclaimed biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one o...
Intended for: those who have the best will in the world, but never get round to using it; those who start something, but don't finish it; and, those who fail, and then fail again. This book is about getting lost, feeling self-pity, feeling a failure, disli
Intended for: those who have the best will in the world, but never get round to using it; those who start something, but don't finish it; and, those w...
