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

Wiek Hijmans - Electric Solo!
Contemporary music for electric guitar, performed by one of Holland’s most innovative & virtuose players. Pieces by Michel van der Aa, Tristan Murail,..(read more)
Label: X-OR / 12
Artist: Wiek Hijmans
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers.

Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Feminism
Analytic and creative response to contemporary conditions and a call to action. Claims that mainstream posthuman scholarship has neglected feminist theory.
Publisher: Polity Press / ISBN: 9781509518081
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Female Icons, Feminism, Human Sciences, Social Sciences.

Peter Sterk - Het Eerste Uur (The First Hour)
Het Eerste Uur (The First Hour) is the result of a search for a music that reflects something of the forms and processes of nature. There is no narrative. There..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Peter Sterk
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Minimal Music, Piano.
