Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton - Softcover

Kavanagh, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571190626 ISBN 13: 9780571190621

Publisher: Faber, 2004

Synopsis

Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's greatest choreographer, was a major figure on the cultural landscape of the twentieth century and his influence extended far beyond the world of dance. Julie Kavanagh traces Ashton's progress with a keen and sympathetic sense of both the man and his milieu. The drama of his professional and private life - among his close associates were Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, W. B. Yeats, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - is skilfully interwoven with vivid descriptions of the ballets themselves.

'Not only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important, a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the first half of our now setting century.' Gore Vidal

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Review:

"'Not only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important, a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the first half of our now setting century.' Gore Vidal; 'A compulsive read for balletomanes, but also for its portrait of between-the-wars high Bohemia.' The Times"

Book Description:

Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh is a virtuoso biography of Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's greatest ballet choreographer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571190626
• ISBN 13: 9780571190621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 686