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

Leonardo Barbadoro - Musica Automata (LP version)
The ensemble of musical robots at the Logos foundation in Ghent inspired Leonardo Barbadoro from Firenze, Italy, to compose for it.
Label: Helical / Logos / 2022
Artist: Leonardo Barbadoro
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Mechanical Music, Robots, Sound Art, Vinyl.

JoE Silva - The MiniMoog Book
More than 5 decades of electronic music history – the synthesizer that changed everything. From prototypes to Model D #1001 to the Minimoog Voyager into t..(read more)
Publisher: Bjooks / ISBN: 9788797539101
Author: JoE Silva
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Analog Synth, Electronic Music, Instrument Builders, Pioneers.

King Midas Sound - Waiting For You…
King Midas Sound is Kevin Martin (also known for his work as The Bug), singer/poet Roger Robinson, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi. This was their 2009 debut album for..(read more)
Label: Hyperdub / HDBCD003
Artist: King Midas Sound
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Dark Ambient, Dub, Electronic, UK.
