The All-Round Man

Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century''s cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger''s American years 1914-61. These letters are fascination to read: they are cultivated rambles (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions) not dissimilar to today''s telephone conversations. Often written in Grainger''s crunchy Blue-eyed English they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world.