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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

Agostino Di Scipio - Hörbare Ökosysteme Live-elektronische kompositionen 1993-2005
Agostino Di Scipio teaches his sounds to listen to themselves. the
digital sound processing algorithms associated with the pieces listen
to their own results, a..(read more)
Label: Ed.RZ / ed.rz. 10015
Artist: Agostino Di Scipio
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Electronic.

Michael Adamis - A Selection of Electroacoustic Works 1964-1977
Michael Adamis (1929 – 2013) was recognised as a pioneering composer whose electroacoustic soundscapes left a clear aesthetic mark in contemporary and Byz..(read more)
Label: Rekem Records / Rekem 03/Mafia 02
Artist: Michael Adamis
Medium: Book + 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '60s, '70s, Composers, Electro-Acoustic, Greece.

Tristan Perich - Telescope
Tristan Perich, the man who gave us the 1-bit Symphony, has released four compositions on CD, for acoustic instrumentation with 1-bit electronics. These works a..(read more)
Label: Physical Editions / Vol.1 No.2
Artist: Tristan Perich
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Electronic Music.
