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

Iannis Xenakis - Ensemble Music Works 3
Mode's third installment of Iannis Xenakis' music for ensembles offers a variety of combinations, keeping with the sui generis nature of his compositi..(read more)
Label: Mode / mode 261
Artist: Iannis Xenakis
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.

Positionen - Texte zur Aktuellen Musik - Nr. 129 (November 2021)
Was ist die Neue Musik? Wer steckt den Rahmen ab? Sind es immer die Kompositionsaufträge, die das Qualitäts-Siegel versprechen?
Publisher: Positionen / 129 (November 2021)
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Magazines, Music Magazine, Music Theory.

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Okkyung Lee is widely regarded for her solo and collaborative improvisations and compositions, weaving a continuously evolving network of sonority, notable for ..(read more)
Label: Shelter Press / SP115
Artist: Okkyung Lee
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Cello, Chamber Music, Composers, Contemporary, Korea, Vinyl.
