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

Positionen - Texte zur aktuellen Musik - Nr. 139
In German. Great periodical for those interested in contemporary composed music and sound art. Important feature: inclusive composing.
Publisher: Positionen / 139 (May 2024)
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Germany, Magazines, Music Magazine, Sound Art.

Milk From Cheltenham - Triptych Of Poisoners
The first-time vinyl reissue of the sole album from UK DIY legends Milk From Cheltenham, originally released in 1983 on famed It’s War Boys imprint, is re..(read more)
Label: Superior Viaduct
Artist: Milk From Cheltenham
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, 1983, Avant-Garde, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK, Vinyl.

François Bayle - Les couleurs de la nuit
François Bayle studied with Stockhausen and Messiaen. He joined the ORTF Groupe de Musique Concrète in 1960. He later led the group when it became the Groupe ..(read more)
Label: Sub Rosa / SRV 371
Artist: François Bayle
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Early Electronic, Vinyl.
