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Glanville-Hicks

American  
[glan-vil-hiks] / ˈglæn vɪlˈhɪks /

noun

  1. Peggy, 1912–90, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.


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Once in place, Thomson sagely recruited other composer-critics to assist him, among them Lou Harrison, Arthur Berger and Peggy Glanville-Hicks.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2016

Glanville-Hicks, meanwhile, suffered a brain tumour, which left her almost blind; the score she wrote was barely legible.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2012

First, she had to persuade the Glanville-Hicks estate.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2012

Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks is a modernist who distrusts twelve-tone music as too coldly intellectual, electronic music as more engineering than art.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when Composer Glanville-Hicks read his Homer's Daughter, she knew at once that she wanted to write music to it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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