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

Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner (Editors) - Audio Culture – Readings In Modern Music
Explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrète, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, ..(read more)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic / ISBN: 9781501318382
Medium: Books
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Culture Theory, Music Theory.

Positionen - Texte Zur Aktuellen Musik - Nr. 125 (November 2020)
German language contemporary music magazine. Kunst > Wirklichkeit!? Wie verhalten sich die Künste? Sind sie nicht seit eh und je sowieso der Garant für ein..(read more)
Publisher: Positionen / 125 (November 2020)
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Magazines, Music Magazine, Music Theory.

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.
