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. 138
Best magazine I know on contemporary music! In German so I hope you can read it, too! Glitter on the cover adds to the charm this time.
Label: Positionen / Nr. 138 Charmeoffensive
Medium: Magazine
Category: Uncategorized.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Magazines, Music Magazine, Music Theory.

Mono-Poly - Testlab
Straight from the Waveform Research Centre in Rotterdam, which is a new studio adjacent to WORM’s Klangendum electronic studio. It was set up by Mr. Mono-..(read more)
Label: WORM.records/Blowpipe
Artist: Mono-Poly
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Instrument Builders, Pioneers, Rotterdam, Vinyl.

Soundings - Issue 73 (Winter 2019-2020): Power to the People?
Lawrence and Wishart is one of the few remaining independent publishing houses in Britain. It is heir to a long intellectual and political tradition, and has al..(read more)
Publisher: Laurence & Wishart / ISBN: 9781912064120
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Politics, UK.
