‘So Written to After-Times’ is a compilation of letters to, or by, John McCabe, and is soon to be published by Forsyth in Manchester.
Correspondents include Britten, Barbirolli, Ursula Vaughan Williams, Previn, Beryl Bainbridge, David Bintley and Richard Rodney Bennett.
The book also contains letters to his wife, Monica, from his various foreign tours. The letters, compiled by Monica, range from the scholastically interesting to the frivolous and the emotionally moving.
“The book is interesting as a historical document, as an intimate disclosure of the thoughts of great artists and even as light-hearted bed-time reading,” said Monica.
So Written to After-Times will be priced at £15.99.