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

Margaret Walters - Feminism – A Very Short Introduction
Historical account that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Eur..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780192805102
Author: Margaret Walters
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Female Icons, Feminism, Politics, Sociology.

Various Authors - Ultra Sounds – The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Lushly illustrated book with essays by leading musicologists and art historians on this early »laboratory« for electronic and electro-acoustic music
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag / ISBN: 9783868289213
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Early Electronic, Pioneers, Poland, Radio Art.

Resonance - Vol. 10 Number 2
The fantastic magazine that appears a bit irregularly and comes from the circles of the London Musician’s Collective and Resonance FM, London’s new ..(read more)
Publisher: LMC UK / 10-02-08
Author: Resonance
Medium: Magazine + CD
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Compilation, Magazines, Music Magazine, UK.
