Peggy Glanville–Hicks – Composer and Critic Robinson Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Peggy Glanville-HicksComposer and Critic\nAuthor(s): Suzanne Robinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252042560, 978-0252042560\nSynopsis\nAs 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. \""[url] forged alliances with power brokers and artists that gained her entrance to c.