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

Stefan Szczelkun - Improvisation Rites: From John Cage’s Song Books to The Scratch Orchestra’s Nature Study Notes
“An improvisation rite is not a musical composition: it does not attempt to influence the music that will be played; at most it may establish a community ..(read more)
Publisher: Routine Art Co. / ISBN: 9781870736961
Author: Stefan Szczelkun
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Community Art, Free Improvisation, History, UK.

Soundings - Issue 69 (Summer 2018): Solidarity In Digital Times
Again, 144 pages worth of committed, informed and thoughtful writing on a wide range of contemporary political and cultural debates. Founded twenty years ago by..(read more)
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart / ISBN: 9781912064885
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Economy, Magazines, Politics, UK.

Karin Pendle and Melinda Boyd - Women In Music – A Research And Information Guide
Women in Music: an annotated bibliography emerging from more than 25 years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subject..(read more)
Publisher: Routledge / ISBN: 9780415867122
Author: Karin Pendle and Melinda Boyd
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Female Icons, Feminism, Gender Theory, Music Theory.
