The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
Language: English
Published by Clarendon Press, 1994
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
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First Edition in New condition hardback, Oxford house-style black boards gilt titling to spine. 301 pp illustrated with b&w photos. Clean and bright throughout with no inscription. These letters "reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world" (Blurb). A handsome volume from the Clarendon Press.
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- Title
- The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
- Author
- Percy Grainger; Malcolm Gillies and David Pear (Editors)
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198163770
- ISBN 13
- 9780198163770
- Illustrator
- B&W photo illustrations.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six uninhibited 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.
From the letters:
`Personally I do not feel like a modern person at all. I feel quite at home in South Sea Island music, in Maori legends, in the Icelandic Sagas, in the Anglo-Saxon `Battle of Brunnanburh', feel very close to Negroes in various countries, but hardly understand modern folk at all.'
`Music seems almost to have a "surface", a smooth surface, a grained surface, a prickly surface to the ear. All these distinguishing characteristics (roughly hinted at in the above silly similes) are to me the "body of music" are to music what "looks", skin, hair are in a person, the actual stuff and manifestation whereby we know it and recognize it'
`You said that too much such treatment annoyed, nerveteased you. Then let me thus tease you while you punish me for the annoyance I give you: Let me lay my weight upon, momi-ing at yr heavenbringing uma, while you thrash my bottom, back & legs in rising annoyance'
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About the Author
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.
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