Peggy Glanville-Hicks won an international reputation as composer - more especially as an opera composer - and was the first, among the few women in this field to achieve such distinction. Tom Fitzgerald was awarded a Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House residential fellowship in 2005. The salons were held while Tom was resident composer, to promote awareness of the House. The second salon featured the composition 'Incidental Music for 3 poems by Adrian Robinson', performed the composer & poet.