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Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : James Murdoch
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2002
Peggy Glanville Hicks written by James Murdoch and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Composers categories.
The story of her life is an extraordinary tale of riotous fun, cruel lovers, grueling poverty, earnest endeavor, and huge success, peopled by some of the leading performers, writers, and creative artists of her time. As this highly entertaining and informative biography shows us, her love life was disastrous but her friendships were exalted."--BOOK JACKET.
The Music Of Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Victoria Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Music Of Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Victoria Rogers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated. Born in Melbourne, Australia, she transcended the gendered expectations of her upbringing and went on to become a fine composer and a highly influential figure in the vibrant musical life of New York after the Second World War. Following early composition studies with Fritz Hart in Melbourne, Glanville-Hicks moved to London where she studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams, then to Paris where she was taught by the great pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger. Her migration to the USA in 1941 shaped the musical direction of her late works. After a brief neoclassical phase, she joined the small group of American composers who were using non-Western musics as their inspirational well-spring, including Colin McPhee, Alan Hovhaness, Lou Harrison and Paul Bowles. During this period she also forged an illustrious career as a music journalist and arts administrator, working tirelessly to promote new music and the careers of young composers. In the late 1950s she retreated to Greece to write 'the big works', most notably the operas which lie at the heart of her creative output. Her compositional career ended prematurely, and tragically, in 1967 following surgery the previous year for a life-threatening brain tumour. Against all medical expectations she went on to live for a further 24 years, returning to Australia in 1975 amidst a dawning recognition that one of the country's most significant composers had returned. Glanville-Hicks's career as a composer is impressive by any measure. She produced over 70 finely-crafted works, including operas, ballets, concertos, instrumental chamber pieces, songs and choral works. The story of her life has been told in the biographies. This book traces the development of her musical language from the English pastoral style of the early works, through the neoclassicism of the middle period, to the melody-rhythm concept of the late works,
Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Suzanne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2019-06-16
Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Suzanne Robinson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-16 with Music categories.
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.
Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Suzanne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2019-06-16
Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Suzanne Robinson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-16 with Music categories.
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.
Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Deborah Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1990-05-11
Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Deborah Hayes and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-05-11 with Music categories.
This first book-length study to focus on Peggy Glanville-Hicks, the important twentieth-century composer and critic who was born in Australia in 1912 and who established her reputation in the U.S. in the late 1940s and 1950s, documents the composer's music, performances, and critical writings, as well as the work of previous biographers, bibliographers, and interviewers. This volume, the most recent in Greenwood's respected series of research tools in the field of music, contains a comprehensive biography of the composer that draws on the writings and recollections of many of the composer's close friends and colleagues. Deborah Hayes' compilation of the great amount of material about Glanville-Hicks and her music found in journals, books, newspapers, dictionaries, and encyclopedias of music also contains alphabetical, chronological, and by-genre lists of works with details of first performances and other significant performances, a discography, and an annotated bibliography that includes abstracts and quotations from performance reviews. Bibliographic entries are keyed to lists of works, recordings, and performances. The work is indexed as well. The work is divided into six cross-referenced chapters beginning with a biography that gives a chronological account of the composer's life and examines recurring themes in her work. The second chapter lists 70 compositions in chronological order by year of composition, from 1931 to 1989, and includes information on publisher, duration, instrumentation, and commission. Premieres and other selected performances are indicated and references are given to recordings and to bibliographical items. A publishers directory, an alphabetical list of works, and a classified list complete the chapter which is followed by a discography of Glanville-Hicks' commercial recordings, both in and out of print. Chapter four's annotated listing of the composer's writings in chronological order from 1945 to 1989 documents the scope of her interests and provides a record of this period in American musical history in the words of a perceptive, articulate listener and active participant. Alphabetized by author and title, music reviews, performance reviews, feature articles, publicity items, and press announcements are listed with annotations in Chapter five. Items from all previous Glanville-Hicks bibliographies and from library clipping files and indexes are included no matter how brief the reference. A final chapter devoted to archival resources lists materials by library in alphabetical order by country and name. This informative and easy-to-use volume will be a necessary addition to the reference collections of college and university music libraries and would be useful for courses in Twentieth-Century Music, Opera, Art Song, Music of the U.S., American Studies, and Women's Studies.
Peggy Glanville Hicks
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Author : Wendy Beckett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Peggy Glanville Hicks written by Wendy Beckett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Composers categories.
Illustrated biography of the acclaimed Australian composer. Traces her life in Australia, America and Greece, her friendships with people such as Lawrence Durrell, Leonard Bernstein and An`is Nin, and her erratic but brilliant music career.
Irony And Sound
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Author : Stephen Zank
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2009
Irony And Sound written by Stephen Zank and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Music categories.
An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.
Women Of Note
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Author : Rosalind Appleby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Women Of Note written by Rosalind Appleby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Desert animals categories.
In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed as mentally insane by her psychiatrist husband, several achieved success only after their divorces and often the only way to get their music published was to lie about their gender. Still, the allure of writing music enticed women from all walks of life, and from the convent and the nappy-change table women began to compose. Music journalist Rosalind Appleby takes a fresh look at Australia's history and makes some startling discoveries about the contribution of women to Australian classical music. Women of Note puts together the missing pieces of history with well-researched snapshots of twenty-one women composers spanning the twentieth century to present day.
Come Sleep By P Glanville Hicks
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Author : Peggy Glanville-Hicks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Come Sleep By P Glanville Hicks written by Peggy Glanville-Hicks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Songs (Medium voice) with piano categories.
Writings About John Cage
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Author : Richard Kostelanetz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Writings About John Cage written by Richard Kostelanetz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Music categories.
Distinguished composers, performers, and critics offer views of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century music