Robert Ponsonby Books

Focusing on the author's personal experiences in the music world, this book provides an autobiographical backdrop to essays about renowned musicians like Jacqueline du Pré and Yehudi Menuhin. It complements the earlier work, Musical Heroes, by offering insights into the author's career as a music administrator, highlighting both the challenges and triumphs encountered in the performing arts. Through a blend of personal narrative and reflections on influential figures, it captures the essence of a life intertwined with music.

Robert Ponsonby has been at the centre of the music world both in Britain and elsewhere for some sixty years. This title presents a distillation of his experiences, achievements and friendships in that world. It paints portraits in many formats of the fifty or so figures he knew best, including conductors, composers, performers and administrators.