{"product_id":"imogen-holst-christopher-grogan-9781843835998","title":"Imogen Holst: A Life in Music: Revised Edition","description":"This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImogen Holst was one of the most wide-ranging and highly regarded of musicians. Popular with all who knew her, she was intensively protective of her inner life, reminding one friend of a 'locked door of which she had thrown away the key'.\u003cbr\u003e Imogen Holst: A Life in Music uses a wealth of newly discovered material to explore the complexities and contradictions of her life and career, drawing on her own writings - ranging from heartfelt early poetry, through correspondence, to a series of journals that maintain a colourful record of her travels and achievements. Most revealing of these is the daily journal that she kept at the start of her working association with Britten, adocument that provides a unique insight both into her own thoughts, and into the professional and domestic life of a major composer.\u003cbr\u003e Extensively revised with new material, the book also includes a study of Imogen Holst's music and a chronological list of her works, revealing her as a composer of tremendous talent, whose music deserves to be much more familiar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e CHRISTOPHER GROGAN is Director of Collections and Heritage at the Britten-Pears Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Grogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843835991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843835998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Christopher Grogan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984385999103,"sku":"9781843835998","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e54f7aa3-16c8-40f8-99ce-98792c3a6446.jpg?v=1683272012","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imogen-holst-christopher-grogan-9781843835998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}