- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Palatine Books; First Edition edition (3 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1874181586
- ISBN-13: 978-1874181583
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 234,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Neville Cardus has many imitators but no equal. Andrew Flintoff Neville Cardus wrote with such elegance. This memoir by his friend Robin Daniels is a worthy tribute. Daniel Barenboim Robin Daniels' memoir will have you smiling and pondering. It will bring joy. Sir Colin Davis The Cardus/Daniels duo has given us a book to live by. Seldom has a great writer been so well served by his Boswell. Dennis Silk Cardus - the very name has magic, an aura. He was a great and many-sided man. Keith Fagan, Musical Opinion What pleasure he gives to cricket lovers all over the world. Cardus is a master of his art, a literary genius. Don Bradman Cardus can translate every manifestation of our shared humanity into beauty and meaning. In Neville Cardus, the artist has an ally. Yehudi Menuhin
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Neville Cardus was born in Rusholme, Manchester in 1888. He was the first music critic to be knighted, the most evocative - and most often quoted - writer on cricket of all time, and one of the great English essayists of the 20th century. It is hard to believe that so majestic and cultured a writer left school at the age of 13. For more than half a century, he wrote about music and cricket for the Manchester Guardian. His first senior editor was the legendary C P Scott. His first literary editor - also mentor - was C E Montague, a distinguished writer and drama critic. Cardus wrote 21 books: 10 about cricket, eight about music, and three volumes of autobiography. Cardus was a friend of cricketers (Don Bradman and Keith Miller), writers (J M Barrie and J B Priestley), actresses (Flora Robson and Wendy Hillier), and musicians (Beecham, Barbirolli, Menuhin, Arrau, Schnabel, Ferrier and Lotte Lehmann). Although he spent the last years of his life in London, he retained his love of Lancashire. He was honoured by the Halle Orchestra, and served as president of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
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I have never seen (or held - it`s a hefty hardback, built to last) a book like this before. I hesitate to suggest that it is a book to actually read sequentially, as one would the average biography, though it is gloriously addictive.
What Robin Daniels, who knew his subject, has given the grateful reader is a cornucopoeia of extracts, examples and lengthy passages from a rich life fully led by Neville Cardus, a man who is, in these brutalised tabloid times, in need of rediscovery. He was one of the very greatest journalistic writers of his time -indeed of all time - whether talking about his beloved cricket, in sensuous prose, or his equally revered classical music, in the same lovingly crafted sentences.
Cardus (who died in 1975 at the age of 86) was a journalist of `the old school` who pursued his apprenticeship under legendary mentors on the Manchester Guardian in the early decades of the 20th century. In his time he wrote, not only journalism - some of which, lucky for us, has been issued in book form - but autobiography, and occasional biography, for example his succinct, hilarious and evocative portrait of Sir Thomas Beecham, whom he knew well.
What is so unusual and so generous about this exemplary book are its extensive quotes from, not only Cardus himself, but his mentors and many others who were a part of the man`s life: composers, musicians, conductors, sportsmen, journalists, and so on.
To cut a potentially long review short, if you are interested in either music or cricket then this is a book you need in your life. It will bring inspiration,
succour, warmth...and a feast of the best writing a century had to offer.
I am not particularly enamoured of cricket (my loss, I`m sure) but I still read Cardus`s descriptions of long-ago sunlit matches with almost as much pleasure as his reviews of pre-war concerts by Kathleen Ferrier or the Halle...
This really is a unique memoir - as its title implies, a celebration - most lovingly assembled by the author as a testament to a great and likeable man, a very fine writer, and a time when criticism could still be viewed as an art in itself. Ken Tynan, Clive James, David Thomson and a few others have taken up the baton, but who is there will follow?
This book will find its small audience; would it were greater.
What Robin Daniels, who knew his subject, has given the grateful reader is a cornucopoeia of extracts, examples and lengthy passages from a rich life fully led by Neville Cardus, a man who is, in these brutalised tabloid times, in need of rediscovery. He was one of the very greatest journalistic writers of his time -indeed of all time - whether talking about his beloved cricket, in sensuous prose, or his equally revered classical music, in the same lovingly crafted sentences.
Cardus (who died in 1975 at the age of 86) was a journalist of `the old school` who pursued his apprenticeship under legendary mentors on the Manchester Guardian in the early decades of the 20th century. In his time he wrote, not only journalism - some of which, lucky for us, has been issued in book form - but autobiography, and occasional biography, for example his succinct, hilarious and evocative portrait of Sir Thomas Beecham, whom he knew well.
What is so unusual and so generous about this exemplary book are its extensive quotes from, not only Cardus himself, but his mentors and many others who were a part of the man`s life: composers, musicians, conductors, sportsmen, journalists, and so on.
To cut a potentially long review short, if you are interested in either music or cricket then this is a book you need in your life. It will bring inspiration,
succour, warmth...and a feast of the best writing a century had to offer.
I am not particularly enamoured of cricket (my loss, I`m sure) but I still read Cardus`s descriptions of long-ago sunlit matches with almost as much pleasure as his reviews of pre-war concerts by Kathleen Ferrier or the Halle...
This really is a unique memoir - as its title implies, a celebration - most lovingly assembled by the author as a testament to a great and likeable man, a very fine writer, and a time when criticism could still be viewed as an art in itself. Ken Tynan, Clive James, David Thomson and a few others have taken up the baton, but who is there will follow?
This book will find its small audience; would it were greater.
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