Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

Ferrier is a national icon, 2003 is the fiftieth anniversary of her cruelly early death. There is an aura about her name, posthumous image and memorythat I think is going to make people want to buy these very human, unaffected, in hindsight moving letters... I read with a lump in my throat: Ferrierseems to be goodness incarnate, the most wonderful of all contraltos, beautiful and doomed. BRUCE PHILLIPS, music editor.