Musical Chairs, Or, Between Two Stools

Download or read book Musical Chairs, Or, Between Two Stools written by Cecil Gray and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1985 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1945, feeling old at fifty, the Scottish composer Cecil Gray sat down at his desk in London's Albany to recapture the days of his youth. The result is this ebullient, opinionated, entirely delightful memoir: of childhood holidays and eccentric uncles; of First World War spy scares with D.H. Lawrence in Cornwall and the bohemian splendour of the day - from Café Royal in the twenties to the Fitzrovia bars of the forties, where he caroused with the likes of Augustus John, Constant Lambert and Dylan Thomas, of visits to Italy with Epstein, to Finland with Sibelius, the south of France with the aging Delius..."--Back cover.