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Article Excerpt
Portrait of Percy Grainger. Edited by Malcolm Gillies and David Pear. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. [xxxv, 220 p. ISBN 1-58046-087-9. $55.) Illustrations, bibliography, index.
This is a delightful book. Its aim is not to criticize, analyze, theorize, or deconstruct its subject, but to build a portrait of a creative human being through the words of people who knew him. Readers who admire Percy Grainger in any or all of his many roles may well wonder what there might be left to say, after all the thousands of words that have been written and spoken by and about this "ever-loquacious musician" (p. xxxiii). This book offers a refreshingly new perspective, since we only briefly hear Grainger speak in his own voice, in a single, linguistically colorful extract from one of his autobiographical writings. For the rest, we see him reflected and refracted through the eyes of others. And it...
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