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

David Stubbs - Fear Of Music – Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen
Second edition. Examines parallel histories of modern art and modern music and why one is embraced and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment,..(read more)
Publisher: Zero Books / ISBN: 9781803417608
Author: David Stubbs
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Abstract, Avant-Garde, Composers, Criticism, Music Theory.

Lolina - Smoke
Aka Inga Copeland, all about songs that dissolve into bare-bones, stretched-out synth-and-vocal drafts bearing half-cooked traces of club tropes.
Label: Own
Artist: Lolina
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Grime, Songwriters, UK, Vinyl.

Jennifer Iverson - Electronic Inspirations – Technologies of the Cold War musical Avant-Garde
For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. The reclamation and repurposing of wartime ..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190868208
Author: Jennifer Iverson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Early Electronic, Germany, Pioneers.
