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

Grapefruits - #07: Public Space
Featuring Olivia Block, Amanda Gutiérez, Anna Hjalmarsson, Olga Kozieł, Sylvia Robinson and Ute Wassermann. Gutiérez for instance creates soundwalks
Publisher: Grapefruits / 07 - public space
Author: Grapefruits
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Fanzines, Female Icons, Feminism, Magazines, Music Magazines, Public Space.

Soundings - Issue 64 (Winter 2016/17)
‘Helps to keep my faith in an intellectual left alive’ (Lawrence Grossberg)
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart / ISBN: ISBN: 9781912064700
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazines
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Politics, UK.

Pauline Oliveros - To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their desperation
“Shortly after it was published in 1968 the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas fell into my hands. Intrigued by the egalitarian feminist principles set forth i..(read more)
Label: Roaratorio / roar21
Artist: Pauline Oliveros
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Vinyl.
