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Quartet: How Four Women Changed The Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse)

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Record Review, BBC Radio 3, 10 Dec. 2022 (Review of new recordings including works by Laura Netzel, Undine Smith Moore, Dobrinka Tabakova and Jean Sibelius)

Winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, Leah’s writing has appeared in outlets including the Guardian, Observer, BBC Music Magazine, Huffington Post, and The Conversation. She has written articles and programme notes for institutions including Glyndebourne, London Chamber Orchestra, Longborough Festival Opera, the Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and the Elgar Festival. Her book appears at a timely moment. Modernism has lost its cachet, and women composers are increasingly well represented in musical life (as witness the King’s choice of composers of the new pieces for his coronation, of which almost half are women). These four composers in particular are enjoying a revival. To say that they changed the musical world might be a stretch; to say they blazed a trail, which scores of other women are now turning into a highway, is surely praise enough.DEBBIE WISEMAN Wonderful... A brilliant introduction to Ethel Smyth and her fellow musical pioneers, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen: so neglectedand so deserving. Rebecca Clarke, ‘one of the first female players in a professional orchestra’. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Research communication forms a huge part of my work. I’m currently writing a group biography of Smyth, Clarke, Howell and Carwithen for Faber & Faber, and was a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. For me, Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata is one of those pieces. I was having a miserable day and was sat in an optician’s waiting room with a migraine. I’d put on a podcast to try to distract myself from the world wavering disconcertingly around me, but I wasn’t really paying attention to it.

Music history after 1750, music & gender, theatre music, British music, Nordic music, women in music, music analysis. Research InterestsHow Four Women Changed the Musical World is the subtitle of this passionate biography of four notable women composers of late 19th- and 20th-century Britain. The author, Leah Broad, is an academic who’s made it her life’s mission to champion women composers. Approaching Incidental Music: "Reflexive Performance" and Meaning in Till Damaskus (III)', Journal of the Royal Musical Association, forthcoming ALEXANDRA COGHLAN, ​The Spectator Broad resists heralding her composers as moral heroes... QUARTETmakes a forceful case for re-establishing these four women as composers of note.

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