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This record wins 5 stars for initiative

This record wins 5 stars for initiative

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison with a toothbrush. That, in sum, is the impression given by Thomas Beecham and other wary admirers. Virginia Woolf once said that being loved by Ethel was “like being caught by a giant crab”. The composer’s daunting physicality occluded whatever merit there was in her music, which faded out with her death in 1944….

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And here.

En francais ici.

In The Critic.

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