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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

Dziga Vertov - Man with a movie camera
Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors[2], by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife El..(read more)
Label: Moskwood Media / 2076
Artist: Dziga Vertov
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Classics, Documentary, Pioneers, Russia.

Henri de Gerlache - Magritte, Le Jour et la Nuit
As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazi..(read more)
Label: Arte Video
Artist: Henri de Gerlache
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Biography, Documentary, Portrait, Surrealism.

Christina Kubisch and Valérie Perrin. - Inaudible, Invisible
A pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields in our urban and technological environment since the 1970s. More inf..(read more)
Publisher: Les Presses du Réel / ISBN : 9782378964061
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Electro-Magnetism, Female Icons, Installation Art, Sound Art.
