Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g
Reihe: Musicians on Music
The Correspondence of Ronald Stevenson and Percy Grainger, 1957-61, with Interviews, Essays and Other Writings on Grainge
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g
Reihe: Musicians on Music
ISBN: 978-0-907689-67-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
The correspondence of the composer-pianists Percy Grainger [1882-1961] and Ronald Stevenson [b. 1928], together with Stevenson's writings on Grainger and two interviews with Stevenson.
In 1957 the Australian-American composer Percy Grainger, then 75 and in failing health, received a letter from another pianist-composer, the young Ronald Stevenson, writing from his home in West Linton, below Edinburgh. That firstcontact - requesting Grainger's reminiscences of Ferruccio Busoni, with whom he had studied - led to an exchange of 32 letters over the four years before Grainger's death in February 1961. The two men soon found that, despite their 46-year age-difference, they had many affinities. Both were pianists of staggering abilities and composers who combined a love for folk-music and working-class art with an aesthetic that proposed a `world music' to include the farthest reaches of humanity. Both made an art of piano transcription of a wide variety of works and were champions of little-known music and composers. And both revered the work of Walt Whitman, that great poet of inclusivity,the pioneering spirit and the open road.
This book presents both the complete Grainger-Stevenson correspondence and Ronald Stevenson's many articles and lectures on Grainger and his music, edited by Teresa Balough, whosetwo interviews with Stevenson open and close the volume - which includes a CD of a lecture-recital on Grainger that Stevenson presented in Grainger's home in White Plains, New York, in 1976.
