{"product_id":"peggy-glanville-hicks-2","title":"Peggy Glanville-Hicks","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eNausicaa\u003c\/i\u003e to intimate, jewel-like compositions created for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin. \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEvocative and intricate, \u003ci\u003ePeggy Glanville-Hicks\u003c\/i\u003e clears away decades of myth and storytelling to provide a portrait of a remarkable figure and her times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Suzanne Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572764573878,"sku":"9780252051401","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780252051401_e7258617-423b-452b-bfe1-2b65e619a4ca.jpg?v=1726055078","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/peggy-glanville-hicks-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}