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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book proves to be well worth the wait. Thoroughly documented and beautifully written, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who survived--and thrived--in the professional music world of New York City in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s." --
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic is strongly recommended for all collections, academic and public. It is accessible to all." --
Fontes Artis Musicae "Engaging and exceptionally well-written . . . Recommended." --
ChoiceTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE1. Family and Childhood (1912–29)2. At the Albert Street Conservatorium (1930–32)3. At the Royal College of Music (1932–36)4. Vienna and Paris (1936–38)5. Mrs. Stanley Bate( 1938–41)PART TWO6. New York, New York!(1941–44)7. Paul Bowles (1944–47)8. At the New York Herald Tribune (1947–48)9. Virgil Thomson (1949–50)10. Rafael da Costa (1951–52)11. Letters from Morocco (1952–53)12. Hideaway in Jamaica (1953–54)13. Guggenheim Fellow (1955–56)14. The Transposed Heads in New York (1956–58)PART THREE15. Greece (1958–60)16. Nausicaa at the Athens Festival (1960–61)17. Mykonos (1961–63)18. Sappho (1963–66)19. A Season in Hell (1966–70)20. Farewell to Greece (1970–75)PART FOUR21. Sydney (1975–81)22. Honors (1981–90)AfterwordNotesSelected BibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Glanville-Hicks’s WorksBack cover
