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Edward Elgar and His World. Edited by Byron Adams. (Bard Music Festival.) Princeton: Princeton University-Press, 2007. [xxi, 426 p. ISBN-10: 0691134456; ISBN-13 978-0-691-13446-8. $22.95.IIIustrations, music examples, index.

2007 was the sesquicentennial of Elgar's birth, and--as may be expected in anniversary years--there has been a surge of publications and events related to the honoree. That Elgar would be the subject of the celebrated Bard Music Festival is noteworthy, especially given his rather marginal status in American concert life. In recent years the festival tide has included the first and last names of its subject--perhaps shying away from the ...

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