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

Jan Paul Westgeest - Get Item Value
Electronic music by young Dutch academic. side 1 contains minimal layered drones, side 2 holds clever abstract compositions with hints at rythmmical structures...(read more)
Label: Hyena Records / Prey 1
Artist: Jan Paul Westgeest
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Electronic, Vinyl.

Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XII
Monadologie XII is a three-part concerto for ensemble with occasional saxophone solos and terrific drum parts by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang. He has release..(read more)
Label: GOD Records / GOD 16
Artist: Bernhard Lang
Medium: LP + CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Austria, Composers, Contemporary, Vinyl.

Luigi Russolo - L’ Art Des Bruits
The famous text by Luigi Russolo, written in 1913, now translated into French. Nice little pocket book, 45 pages, with illustrations.
Publisher: Allia / ISBN: 9791030401004
Author: Luigi Russolo
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Futurism, Pioneers.
