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Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier - Revised and Enlarged Edition (Paperback, Revised And Extended Ed)
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Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier - Revised and Enlarged Edition (Paperback, Revised And Extended Ed)
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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A revised and enlarged paperback edition to mark the centenary of
the much-loved singer's birth. In 1953, at the age of 41, Kathleen
Ferrier, England's greatest lyric contralto, lost her courageous
battle with breast cancer. Her huge appeal to a wide audience - in
concerts, on records, on the radio and in the opera house - has
ensured her name endures to this day, despite a career which lasted
barely ten years. In just half that time, this former telephone
exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden, before
royalty at private parties, andat New York's Carnegie Hall. This
collection of letters and twelve years of her personal diaries was
first published by Boydell Press in 2003. Here, an enlarged
paperback edition contains a new chapter revealing her
growingimportance to the BBC, an additional 90 letters, together
with much revised material and a selection of moving tributes.
Published to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912, the book, of
more than 400 letters, provides a vivid picture of a life which
illuminated the war and post-war years of austerity and hardship.
Kathleen Ferrier was surely fun to know. Her personality was a mix
of extreme modesty and self-determined ambition, topped with a
mischievously blunt sense of earthy Lancastrian humour. She is
known for her glorious voice, but through the pages of these
fascinating letters and diaries we get to meet the real person. DR
CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is a conductor, music historian, lecturer and
broadcaster. He is the biographer of Max Bruch [Boydell Press 2005]
and conductor Hans Richter, and the author of a history of the
music agents Ibbs & Tillett.
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