Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott

<p>This dual biography of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott tells the dramatic<br />story of two geniuses who met at the Royal College of Music in 1911 and<br />formed an unlikely partnership that illuminated and enriched the musical<br />and literary worlds in which they moved. Gurney's poetry and songs have<br />taken their place as part of the inheritance of England. Scott<br />Gurney's strongest advocate emerges from his shadow for the first time.<br />Her own remarkable achievements as a pioneering music critic<br />musicologist advocate of contemporary music and women musicians place her among the most influential and respected women of her generation.<br />Based on original research this is the first biography of Gurney since<br />1978 and the only biography of Scott. It offers new in-depth<br />perspectives on Gurney's attempts to create music and poetry while<br />struggling to overcome the bipolar illness that eventually derailed his<br />genius and restores Marion Scott's rightful place in music history.<br />Pamela Blevins is a former journalist and managing editor of <em>Signature</em> a magazine about women in classical music. She has published widely on British composers and poets.</p><p> </p>