 Author Name: HODGKINS, Geoffrey (edited by):
Title: THE BEST OF ME. A Gerontius Centernary Companion.
Binding: Hard Cover Publisher: U.K Elgar Editions 2000 ISBN Number: 0 9537082 0 9 / 9780953708208
Seller ID: 2540
Reprinted with corrections. Book in fine condition. xii, 372pp. Frontispiece of Edward Elgar, with 90 illustrations. This book attempts to provide a complete history of Gerontius from Cardinal Newman to the year 2000. Articles previously published in the Elgar Society Journal have been updated. New chapters provide a biographical portrait of Newman and his writing of the epic poem, a pictorial of Worcestershire countryside that provided Elgar with the inspiration to compose his masterpiece and a final chapter which reviews the status Gerontius has achieved.
GERONTIUS, CARDINAL NEWMAN, ELGAR, POEM, MUSIC, COMPOSER, WORCESTERSHIRE
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