Leah Broad - Quartet – How Four Women Challenged the Musical World
Highlights the lives, loves, and musical careers of four extraordinary women:
Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.
In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but they became ghostly presences until Leah Broad, via a group biography, resurrected these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces.
Their names
Their names survived only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten. But now here they are:
Ethyl Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.
Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation.
Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the ‘English Strauss’ never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar’s grave alone.
Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain’s first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II’s coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor.
Paperback, published in 203, 472 pages.
€20.00

Various Artists - Roll out the Barrel
Roll Out the Barrel: the British pub on film is a unique and fascinating collection of 20 films, made between 1944 and 1982. From wartime documentaries intended..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIDV937
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Atmospheric, Compilations, Documentary, UK.

Kim Newman - Flipside: Kim Newman’s Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema
In an all-new documentary, produced exclusively for the BFI, the UK’s most knowledgeable and well-respected cult film critic, Kim Newman, explores such qu..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD878
Artist: Kim Newman
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, Documentary, UK.

Clara Iannotta - A Failed Entertainment
Italian composer Clara Iannotta’s compositions are marked by a particular intrinsic ‘theatricality’, in the sense of the physicality of sound,..(read more)
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 3005
Artist: Clara Iannotta
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Percussion, Strings.
