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.
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John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg - So Beautiful, It Starts to Rain
35 minutes, three mesmerizing tracks, recorded August 2015 at Cafe Oto. John Butcher – soprano & tenor saxophones. Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / cf390
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Percussion, Saxophone, UK.

Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Works by Modest Mussorgsky / Geert van Keulen
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Label: Composers Voice / CV 80
Artist: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.

Gottfried Michael Koening - Process and Form: Selected Writings on Music
Writings and conversations (1954–2001) most of them in English translation for the first time – document his exploration of serial and aleatoric techniques,..(read more)
Publisher: Wolke Verlag / ISBN: 9783955930905
Author: Gottfried Michael Koening
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '50s, '60s, Avant-Garde, Composers, Electronic Music.
