Bloomsbury Group don't like anything that sets itself up as an in-group or an elite, whether it is the Bloomsbury group or Derrida". Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with Cambridge University for the men and King's College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, "although its members denied being
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf cycles "Letters from Composers", "The Andrée Expedition", and "Casa Guidi". In each case, he captures the cadence and flow of these more free-form writings without sacrificing musical structure or melodic interest. The composer's original intention was to use excerpts from Woolf's novel "The Waves" as the basis for his cycle. But in reading her newly published diaries he discovered a source much richer in musical and expressive possibilities. The highly confessional diary texts illuminate Woolf's inner world in a more immediate way than do her literary works. Assertion Assertion Score available from http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Dominick-Argento-From-The-Diary-of-Virginia-Woolf-voice-piano-Medium-Voice-Piano/600978 From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From