Valerie Langfield.

Valerie Langfield. Roger Quilter: His Life and Music. Rochester, N Y: The Boydell Pres 2002 Pp Xviii, 375 $7000 ISBN 0-85115-871-4

With the triumph of high Modernism after the secondary World War, charm was banished from the art of music, along with beauty, sentiment, and a landlord of other unfashionable aesthetic proper states Judged by the austere strictures of Adorno and Dalhaus, a composer like Roger Quilter (1877-1953) whose music be excreteds charm, should have been discarded on the ash heap of history. strangely enough, however, the progress of music history invariably takes

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