The New Percy Grainger Companion by Penelope Thwaites
The Boydell Press, $99.95 hb, 332 pp
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There is too much Percy Grainger for one person. Having studied the man for twenty-five years, I still cannot account for his ability to achieve so much in so many fields. The thousands of lengthy letters he wrote alone constitute a lifetime’s work, irrespective of the music, the concert performances, the teaching, the publishing.
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