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

Soundings - Issue 75 (Summer 2020): System Change
Institutional racism became part of public discourse in the UK in 1999, after the Macpherson report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence by the police some years..(read more)
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart / ISBN: 9781912064281
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Politics, UK.

Various Authors - Derek Jarman
New essays by international art critics devoted to the artist’s life and work offer accessible overview of legendary artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Publisher: JRP Ringier / ISBN: 9783037645888
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Artist Film, Experimental Films, monograph, Portrait, UK.

Luis Alvarado & Alejandra Cárdenas (Eds.) - Switched On – The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music, edited by Luis Alvarado and Alejandra Cárdenas.
Publisher: Contingent Sounds / ISBN : 9783000777523
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Electronic Music, Female Icons, Pioneers, South America.
