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The New Percy Grainger Companion edited by Penelope Thwaites

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May 2011, no. 331

The New Percy Grainger Companion edited by Penelope Thwaites

The Boydell Press, $99.95 hb, 332 pp

Music

The New Percy Grainger Companion edited by Penelope Thwaites

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May 2011, no. 331

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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David Pear

David Pear has written extensively on Australian music and culture.  His Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (OUP, 2006), edited with Malcolm Gillies and Mark Carroll, gained the Deems Taylor Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2007.

David Pear reviews 'The New Percy Grainger Companion' edited by Penelope Thwaites

The New Percy Grainger Companion

edited by Penelope Thwaites

The Boydell Press, $99.95 hb, 332 pp

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