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1 Heroines and Their ‘Moments of Folly’ : Reflections on Writing the Biography of a Woman Composer Suzanne Robinson , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , April no. 3 2020; (p. 21-38)
'In the book of essays titled The Art of Literary Biography, Jürgen Schlaeger recounts how a German colleague visiting the Dickens House Museum in London took particular interest in Dickens’s study. There his friend watched an English schoolboy enter the room, carefully read through the words on an information sheet and then shout to his classmates: ‘Dickens’s chair! Dickens’s chair!’ Other children rushed in and began copying out the description, some of them also sketching the object itself. For a German, Schlaeger reports, this form of ‘celebrity fetishism’ was astonishing. Yet, as he explained, it stemmed from a long history of hero-worship in the English speaking world. Australians, for example, also revere their heroes through relics, with public collections preserving such items as Captain James Cook’s tea cup, Ned Kelly’s armour, Henry Handel Richardson’s ouija board and Dame Nellie Melba’s shoes. In the case of the composer Percy Grainger, we have a whole museum housing clothing, handmade machinery, musical instruments, artworks and even his toy sailing boat.' (Introduction)
1 1 y separately published work icon Peggy Glanville-Hicks : Composer and Critic Suzanne Robinson , Illinois : University of Illinois Press , 2019 18223373 2019 single work biography

'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.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Passions of a Mighty Heart : The Selected Letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall G. W. L. Marshall-Hall , Suzanne Robinson (editor), Melbourne : Lyrebird Press , 2015 9860175 2015 selected work correspondence

'Spanning two decades of the cultural life of Melbourne, from 1891 until the start of World War I, this collection of the letters of the composer, conductor and critic G.W.L. Marshall-Hall samples the scandal, disappointments, achievements and camaraderie of those years, when he established a renowned orchestra, was controversially sacked and later reappointed as professor at the university and when his opera Stella was butchered at its London premiere. Correspondents include the artists Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, the composers Alfred Hill and Fritz Hart, and an array of musicians, colleagues, friends and supporters. Sometimes caustic and often opinionated, the letters expose their author’s infectious enthusiasm for Art as well as his tendency to rile his enemies. His tragic death in 1915 led a few years later to a campaign to collect what memorabilia remained. Gathered here from public and private archives in Australia and Britain are 249 of the extant letters, each of which offers a vivid portrait of a man many described as a musical genius.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Marshall-Hall's Melbourne : Music, Art and Controversy 1891-1915 Thérèse Radic (editor), Suzanne Robinson (editor), North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2012 Z1903408 2012 anthology biography 'The English conductor, composer and critic G. W. L. Marshall-Hall dominated music in Melbourne from his arrival in 1891 to his untimely death in 1915. He was a "firebrand and an iconoclast" hated by the clergy, feared by the press and adored by all his friends.

'This new collection of sixteen essays examines Marshall-Hall's music, his teaching and philosophy, his friendships with artists and musicians including Arthur Streeton and Percy Grainger, and the ruinous scandals sparked by his unorthodox views on religion, sex and the role of the press.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Music Publishing Suzanne Robinson , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market 2001; (p. 54-57)
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