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

Frédéric Acquaviva - K Requiem
Barrel Organ – Artus
Bass Saxophone – Philippe Dibetta
Music By, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Organ, Keyboards, Percussion, Mixed By – Frédéric Acqua..(read more)
Label: Al Dante / FA-AD05
Artist: Frédéric Acquaviva
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Spoken Word.

Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder (Eds.) - Last Days at Hot Slit – the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Selections from the work of the American radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist se..(read more)
Publisher: Semiotext(e) / ISBN: 9781635900804
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Female Icons, Feminism, Literature, USA.

Ensemble Klang - Matthew Wright: Music at the Edge of Collapse
Matthew Wright (1977) is a composer, improviser and sound artist working at the edges of concert and club culture. “Music at the edge of collapse” w..(read more)
Label: Ensemble Klang Records / EKCD4
Artist: Ensemble Klang
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Turntablism.
