ABSTRACT
While Grainger traveled frequently in 1940, Henry Cowell was obligated to fulfill his new "secretarial" duties as well as to meet regularly in downtown Manhattan with his parole officer, William Edelstein. Reporting to his parole officer on the first day of each month was mandatory. If the 1936 band work How They Take It: Prison Moods can be interpreted as a musical overture to the imprisonment of Cowell, then the coda of his San Quentin saga may well be highlighted by another band work: "58 for Percy Grainger". By far the most transparent expression of affection for Grainger as well as the two composers' mutual devotion to the saxophone is a smaller scale sequel to "58," the composition "60 for Percy". "Blarneying Lilt" is filed with the holograph of the Old American Country Set for orchestra at the Library of Congress. The holograph for the band version reads: "Blarneying Lilt, Cowell" in pencil with the title underlined.
