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

by Percy Grainger

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",...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163770
• ISBN13: 9780198163770
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"