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

Dick Raaijmakers - A Monograph
The long awaited and richly illustrated monography of the Godfather of the Dutch electronic music by editors Brouwer and Mulder, who did research for three year..(read more)
Publisher: V2 / ISBN 9789056626006
Author: Dick Raaijmakers
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Electronic, Pioneers, Sonic Experiments.

Adriaan de Roover - Leaves
Young composer/musician based in Antwerp. His abstract, organic sounding pieces charmed me with their highly refined, deeply lyrical, multi-layered character.
Label: Own
Artist: Adriaan de Roover
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Modern Classical, Soundscapes, Vinyl.

Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch
This LP is a 180 gram exact repro reissue, originally released in 1969. “The World of Harry Partch collects three of his best short pieces. ‘Daphne ..(read more)
Label: Sony/CBS / MS 7207
Artist: Harry Partch
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Instrument Builders, USA, Vinyl.
