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

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.

Morton Feldman - Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century. While his music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate bea..(read more)
Publisher: Exact Change / ISBN 1 878972 31 6
Author: Morton Feldman
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers.

WORM Pirate Bay - Roots Change
This wonderful edition is the result of a 3 day showcase of WORM in Hull, UK, in June 2017. That is to say, it’s a sound collage of no less than 3 hours s..(read more)
Label: WORM.records
Artist: WORM Pirate Bay
Medium: 3x Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Collage, DIY, Tapes, UK.
