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 - Electronic Music: It Started Here…
A great compilation with Classic early electronic pieces with Electro-Acoustic Music, Electronic Music and Musique Concrète from the Fifties and the Sixties fr..(read more)
Label: Not Now Music / NOT2CD627
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic Music, Musique Concrète.

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.

Stefan Szczelkun - Improvisation Rites: From John Cage’s Song Books to The Scratch Orchestra’s Nature Study Notes
“An improvisation rite is not a musical composition: it does not attempt to influence the music that will be played; at most it may establish a community ..(read more)
Publisher: Routine Art Co. / ISBN: 9781870736961
Author: Stefan Szczelkun
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Community Art, Free Improvisation, History, UK.
