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

Art Bears - Hopes and Fears
Hopes and Fears began as a Henry Cow album, but after the first recording sessions in Switzerland, some of the members of the band were unhappy about the predom..(read more)
Label: ReR Megacorp / ReR Vab1
Artist: Art Bears
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Electronic Rock, UK, Vinyl.

Lawrence Sutin - Divine Invasions – A Life of Philip K. Dick
Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest novelists and science fiction’s greatest ambassador to literary audiences...(read more)
Publisher: Da Capo Press / ISBN: 9780786716234
Author: Lawrence Sutin
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Science Fiction.

Frédéric Acquaviva - K Requiem
Barrel Organ – Artus
Bass Saxophone – Philippe Dibetta
Music By, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Organ, Keyboards, Percussion, Mixed By – Frédéric Acqua..(read more)
Label: Al Dante / FA-AD05
Artist: Frédéric Acquaviva
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Spoken Word.
