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Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Composer and Critic (Paperback)
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Composer and Critic (Paperback)
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As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to
the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her
forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape
professional and public opinion on the state of American composing.
The seventy musical works she composed ranged from celebrated
operas like Nausicaa to intimate, jewel-like compositions created
for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul
Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin. Drawing on interviews,
archival research, and fifty-four years of extraordinary pocket
diaries, Suzanne Robinson places Glanville-Hicks within the history
of American music and composers. "P.G.H." forged alliances with
power brokers and artists that gained her entrance to core American
cultural entities such as the League of Composers, New York Herald
Tribune, and the Harkness Ballet. Yet her impeccably cultivated
public image concealed a private life marked by unhappy love
affairs, stubborn poverty, and the painstaking creation of her
artistic works. Evocative and intricate, Peggy Glanville-Hicks
clears away decades of myth and storytelling to provide a portrait
of a remarkable figure and her times.
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