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

Family Fodder - – And Friends – Sunday Girls
Family Fodder was originally formed in 1979 by Alig Pearce and emerged from the melting-pot of 70s/80s London alongside This Heat, The Flying Lizards, The Pop G..(read more)
Label: Staubgold / 140
Artist: Family Fodder
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK.

Mariska Majoor - United Under a Red Umbrella
Mariska Majoor worked in Amsterdam’s Red Light District as a prostitute in the 1980s. After she quit, she became a well-known activist who tried to improv..(read more)
Publisher: PIC / ISBN: 9789081023832
Author: Mariska Majoor
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Amsterdam, Female Icons, Sex Work.

John McGuire - Works for Instruments
Each of the compositions of American composer John McGuire describes, in its own way, a multi-dimensional sonic space which the listener can take in from variou..(read more)
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 20003-4
Artist: John McGuire
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.
