Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
430, 431
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Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Cunard | NC
's mother, Maud Alice (Burke) Cunard
(Emerald), was born in San Francisco in 1872, to a wealthy father of Irish descent and a half-French mother. She was largely self-taught, and had a... |
Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | ES
's opera The Wreckers had its first full performance in English under conductor Thomas Beecham
at His Majesty's Theatre
, London. Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994. 430, 431 Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992. 342 |
Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | |
politics | Ethel Smyth | Imprisoned with other Women's Social and Political Union supporters, ES
served three weeks of a two-month sentence. Conductor Thomas Beecham
wrote of a visit to Holloway at which he saw her at a window with... |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | Sir Henry Wood
conducted the overture at the Queen's Hall
in London on 22 August 1932, and it was conducted again at the same venue by Sir Thomas Beecham
in March 1935. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 5: 96n2, 370n4 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | ES
's oratorio The Prison (finished and first performed in Edinburgh in 1931) was conducted by Beecham
at Queen's Hall on 3 January 1934, as part of a programme entirely devoted to her music. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 4: 290, 5: 267n1 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | ES
's writings about her own times included individual studies of other people. As well as writing of Mrs Pankhurst in Female Pipings in Eden, she published Beecham
and Pharoah in May 1935 with... |
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