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Portrait of Percy Grainger (Hardcover, First Trade Paper ed.)
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Portrait of Percy Grainger (Hardcover, First Trade Paper ed.)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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A unique treatment of the key influences on the life of this
important Australian composer, consisting of oral histories by
people who knew Grainger, as well as reflections from his own
writings. Percy Grainger [1882-1961] was a pianist, composer,
ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The Australian-American
musician aspired to the condition of a polymath, with strong
interests in language, culture, ecology and technology. In an age
of increasing specialisation Grainger held to a breathless
all-roundedness. This book looks at the scrabbling diversity of
Grainger's life through the eyes of others. Family and friends,
pupils, musical associatesand chance acquaintances recall their
experiences of Percy Grainger from his boyhood in colonial
Australia, through his conservatorium years in Germany, on to his
early professional years in London, and further to the zenith of
his career and then years of decline in the United States. In the
final chapter, Grainger himself explains the driving passions of
his life. Fifty illustrations, including architectural drawings,
scores and machine plans, vividly depict the enthusiasms described
in over ninety recollections of Grainger. A composer of over four
hundred compositions and virtuoso performer in some three thousand
concerts, Grainger left a large legacy. He was an
importantinfluence upon the folk-song movement in Britain, and,
through such masterworks as Lincolnshire Posy, he was enduringly
popular with the band movement in America. On a personal level, his
development of the language of "blue-eyed English" was stillborn,
and his muscular style of pianism found few adherents among the
next generation of performers. His frankly expressed views on
sexual licence were also many decades ahead of their time. Today,
however, Grainger the musician is again in the ascendant. His more
innovative works are gaining a belated hearing, while his
standards, such as Country Gardens, remain firm favorites. Malcolm
Gillies and David Pear areco-editors of Grainger on Music and 'The
All-Round Man': Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
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