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

Alvin Lucier - Music 109 – Notes on Experimental Music
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical ..(read more)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press / ISBN: 978-0-8195-7429-3
Author: Alvin Lucier
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, USA.

Family Fodder - – And Friends – Sunday Girls
Family Fodder was originally formed in 1979 by Alig Pearce and emerged from the melting-pot of 70s/80s London alongside This Heat, The Flying Lizards, The Pop G..(read more)
Label: Staubgold / 140
Artist: Family Fodder
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK.

Various Artists - November Music 2001
This CD is is the fifth one in line with recordings of the November Music festival, with the composition “(w)here” from Mayke Nas for tuba and ensem..(read more)
Label: November Music / NM 005
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Improvisation, Live Electronics.
