Marking the centenary of her birth, Donald Macleod delves in to the little known world of 20th century British composer Doreen Carwithen, one of only a handful of female British composers who worked ...

The Shrewsbury Symphony Orchestra will play Doreen Carwithen's 'Bishop Rock Overture' in a concert marking 100 years since the composer's birth in November 1922. Joining them in the viola section at ...

The subtitle of Quartet, historian Leah Broad’s book about four UK women composers, reads boldly: How Four Women Changed the Musical World. Although Broad is a passionate advocate for these women’s ...

Leah Broad, one of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers and a music historian at the University of Oxford, explores why the music of three 20th century women composers, much loved at the time, is only ...

Kazem Abdullah, who will be guest-conducting the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra this weekend, says Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" is one of his favorite pieces. "'It's a tour de force, virtuosic ...

Concert and film composer-musician Doreen Mary Carwithen, known later primarily as wife of composer William Alwyn, died Jan. 5. She was 80. Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England, native was, like ...

Leah Broad, one of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers and a music historian, explores why the music of three 20th-century women composers, much loved at the time, is so little heard today. Looking at ...

The other day, Arkansas Symphony guest conductor Kazem Abdullah described Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" as "a great barn-burner to end the season with." Well, the orchestra created quite a ...

The subtitle of Quartet, historian Leah Broad’s book about four UK women composers, reads boldly: How Four Women Changed the Musical World. But I am unsure that the musical world – for Broad, ...