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Peggy Glanville-Hicks : Composer and Critic /

"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 compose...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Suzanne, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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