ABSTRACT
A little over a week later Glanville-Hicks met with olin Downes, a music critic of considerable influence in New York and Boston and one whose blistering critique of the second viennese school and the dissonant avant-garde coincided with her own views. In 1945 Glanville-Hicks was well established in the musical life of New York. She had become involved with the league of composers, an organization that had been formed in New York in 1923 to promote contemporary composition. The songs were premièred in New York with katrina castles, one of Glanville-Hicks's old Melbournian friends, as soloist. The work received its première in 1948 at a composers' forum concert in New York; publication by Weintraub followed three years later. An American debut followed later in 1948 at a composers' forum concert in New York; two years later the piece was published by l'oiseau-lyre, and a recording was made by columbia in 1955.
