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

Positionen - Texte zur aktuellen Musik - Nr. 141: Der Duft ist Da!
Der Duft ist da! Thema-ausgabe über Gerüchen (Smells). Bruno Mesz: osmosonische Kunst / Meo Fusciuni / Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg zu besuch bei iii, Den Haag
Publisher: Positionen / 141 (04-2024)
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Magazines, Music Magazines, Sensority, Sound Art.

Peter Whitehead - Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Compilation of Wholly Communion (1965) and Benefit of the Doubt (1967),
coupled with a new interview with Peter and additional rare footage.
With over three hou..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 750
Artist: Peter Whitehead
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Compilations, Poetry, UK.

Marianne Pousseur and Kaat De Windt - War & Exile
Marianne Pousseur: voice, Kaat De Windt: piano perform 27 songs from Hans Eisler on texts by Bertolt Brecht.
Label: Sub Rosa / SR67
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Songs.
