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

Robert Ashley - Outside of Time/Außerhalb der Zeit
Bilingual (English/German 656 pages) collection of writings about ideas concerning music by American composer Robert Ashley.
Publisher: MusikTexte / ISBN: 978-3-9813319-0-5
Author: Robert Ashley
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.

Grapefruits - #01: Imaginary Sound
Coming in juicy cover colours, Grapefruits is a fanzine about female* composers and sound artists, made by Elisa Metz and Nathalie Brum from Cologne. The name w..(read more)
Publisher: Grapefruits / 01- imaginary sound
Author: Grapefruits
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Fanzines, Female Icons, Music Magazine, Sound Art, Zines.

Frederic Rzewski - Nonsequiturs – Thoughts, Writings & Lectures on Improvisation, Composition and Interpretation
To anyone interested in the history of improvisation within contemporary music, the avantgarde pianist/composer Rzewski is a central figure. Earle Brown comes c..(read more)
Publisher: MusikTexte / ISBN: 9783980315185
Author: Frederic Rzewski
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Improvisation, Piano.
