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So Written To After-Times - John McCabe, a Life in Letters
Catalogue No: FMJ06
A rare, intimate opportunity to explore the letters of a leading British composer and musician, John McCabe, as he corresponds with eminent composers and performers from across the world.
£15.95
A compilation of letters or extracts from letters between composer-pianist John McCabe and eminent composers and performers from across the world, including also letters home from his various foreign tours. They range from the scholastically interesting to the frivolous and the emotionally moving, lovingly compiled by his wife, Monica. McCabe's correspondents include Britten, Barbirolli, Ursula Vaughan Williams, Previn, Beryl Bainbridge, David Bintley and Richard Rodney Bennett. The book is therefore fascinating as a historical document, as an intimate disclosure of the thoughts of great artists and even as light-hearted bed-time reading.
Reviews
***** 4barsrest.com 'A compelling compendium of correspondence...compiled with a telling, unsentimentally loving eye.'
MusicWeb International 'a remarkable collection of letters, postcards, faxes and emails...everything in the book is interesting and important.'
FMJ06
A rare, intimate opportunity to explore the letters of a leading British composer and musician, John McCabe, as he corresponds with eminent composers and performers from across the world.