Dr Emily MacGregor is a writer, music historian, and broadcaster.
While the Music Lasts: A Memoir of Music, Grief, and Joy
‘alternately erudite and anecdotal … sparingly but beautifully drawn. …[MacGregor] shows not only that music is about “the looping around of time, the return, the revisiting” but also that, in allowing us to revisit the past, it strengthens emotional, psychological and spiritual connections, making us more truly who we already are’
Catherine Coldstream, Times Literary Supplement
‘Emily MacGregor takes two things people are often scared of – classical music, and death – and makes them winningly accessible, warm, funny and real. This book is as finely tuned as the very best of orchestras. I loved it’
Alice Vincent, author of Hark and Why Women Grow
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Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023
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