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

stenton.press x Zach Dawson - Forever Grey
Forever Grey by young British composer Zach Dawson is a score in the form of a booklet. It presents a pessimistic domestic music making opportunity for its owne..(read more)
Publisher: Stenton Press
Author: stenton.press x Zach Dawson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, UK.

Leonardo Barbadoro - Musica Automata (CD version)
The ensemble of musical robots at the Logos foundation in Ghent inspired Leonardo Barbadoro from Firenze, Italy, to compose for it.
Label: Helical / Logos / HLC001
Artist: Leonardo Barbadoro
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Mechanical Music, Robots, Sound Art.

Larry Austin & Douglas Kahn (Ed.) - Source. Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1970
This journal “Source: Music of the Avant-garde” was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts.
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520267459
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Contemporary, Performance Art, Sound Art.
