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

Yannis Kyriakides - Amiandos
“Amiandos is the name of the asbestos mine in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus, operating between 1904 and 1988. It was also the birthplace of my father. M..(read more)
Label: Unsounds / 75U
Artist: Yannis Kyriakides
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Cyprus, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic.

Dick Raaijmakers - Cahier “M”
SORRY – no longer available in english language. The dutch-language version is still available from the publisher here.
Publisher: Leuven University Press / ISBN: 9789058670762
Author: Dick Raaijmakers
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Music Theory, Sonology, Sound Studies.

Singers & Players - Revenge of the Underdog
The second album by the loose On-U collective, originally released in 1982. Featuring Prince Far I, Bim Sherman, Jah Woosh, plus members of the Roots Radics, Th..(read more)
Label: On U Sound / ONULP11
Artist: Singers & Players
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, Dub, Reggae, UK, Vinyl.
