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 Authors - Derek Jarman
New essays by international art critics devoted to the artist’s life and work offer accessible overview of legendary artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Publisher: JRP Ringier / ISBN: 9783037645888
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Artist Film, Experimental Films, monograph, Portrait, UK.

WORM Horspil - K7-4: Lucinda Guy – An Island In The Moon
I love Lucinda Guy! Based on the story written by William Blake in 1785.. a timeless atmosphere with wacky characters in the best absurdist practice.
Label: WORM.records / K7-4
Artist: WORM Horspil
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Radio Art, UK.

Frederic Rzewski - Lisa Moore plays Frederic Rzewski
The first woman to record Frederic Rzewski's setting of Oscar Wilde's “De Profundis,” Bang on a Can/Steve Reich pianist Lisa Moore sheds p..(read more)
Label: Cantaloupe / CA21014
Artist: Frederic Rzewski
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Piano.
