Peggy Glanville-Hicks : composer and critic /

Peggy Glanville-Hicks : composer and critic /

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Author / Creator:Robinson, Suzanne, 1963- author.
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (xi, 314 pages)
Language:English
Series:Music in American life
Music in American life.
Subject:
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy.
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy.
Composers -- Biography.
Women composers -- Biography.
Composers.
Women composers.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12484878
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ISBN:9780252051401
0252051408
9780252042560
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 08, 2019).
Summary:"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."--affectionately described as "Australian and pushy"--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."--ProQuest.
Other form:Print version: Robinson, Suzanne, 1963- Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] 9780252042560
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1. Family and Childhood (1912-29); Chapter 2. At the Albert Street Conservatorium (1930-32); Chapter 3. At the Royal College of Music (1932-36); Chapter 4. Vienna and Paris (1936-38); Chapter 5. Mrs. Stanley Bate (1938-41); Part Two; Chapter 6. New York, New York! (1941-44); Chapter 7. Paul Bowles (1944-47); Chapter 8. At the New York Herald Tribune (1947-48); Chapter 9. Virgil Thomson (1949-50); Chapter 10. Rafael da Costa (1951-52); Chapter 11. Letters from Morocco (1952-53)
  • Chapter 12. Hideaway in Jamaica (1953-54)Chapter 13. Guggenheim Fellow (1955-56); Chapter 14. The Transposed Heads in New York (1956-58); Part Three; Chapter 15. Greece (1958-60); Chapter 16. Nausicaa at the Athens Festival (1960-61); Chapter 17. Mykonos (1961-63); Chapter 18. Sappho (1963-66); Chapter 19. A Season in Hell (1966-70); Chapter 20. Farewell to Greece (1970-75); Part Four; Chapter 21. Sydney (1975-81); Chapter 22. Honors (1981-90); Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; General Index; Index of Glanville-Hicks's Works; Back Cover

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