Australian-born Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), was a journalist, advocate of modern music, and composer of concertos, chamber music, four operas, and five ballets. She became an Australian expatriate in 1932, and an American citizen in 1948. Fellow Australian James Murdoch first met her in 1968, and in 1972, as music consultant to the Australia Council for the Arts, invited her to return to the country as his appointee to the newly-formed Australia Music Centre. Murdoch draws on some three decades as a personal friend and colleague of the composer in writing this insightful biography. Illustrated with 23 b&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)