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

The Just Measurers - Flagellation
Jim Whelton (aka Xentos), Lepke (Milk from Cheltenham), and Chris Grey (Amos and Sara) originally released this on Jim’s Its War Boys Label in 1983.. one ..(read more)
Label: Emotional Response / ER73
Artist: The Just Measurers
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK, Vinyl.

Harry Partch - The Harry Partch Collection Vol. 2
The Wayward: U.S. Highball, San Francisco, the Letter, Barstow / And on the Seventh Day Petals fell in Petaluma.
Label: New World Records / 80622
Artist: Harry Partch
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Instrument Builders, Microtonality, USA.

Harry de Wit - Song for the pigeons
Dutch autodiact and former pop musician with an international reputation for improvising, composing, performing and designing electro-acoustical instruments lik..(read more)
Label: Walpurgis / WPR-005
Artist: Harry de Wit
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Instrument Builders, Percussion.
