A new book on three groundbreaking 20th century female composers, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and 20th Century British Music: A Blest Trio of Sirens is to be published by Ashgate Press in May 2012.
<em>A Blest Trio of Sirens</em>
24 February 2012The author is Rhiannon Mathias, writer, lecturer, broadcaster and flautist, who is Director of the William Mathias Music Centre and a Visiting Fellow in Music at Bangor University. This is a comprehensive survey of music by the three composers, who were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music, all of whom began their careers with performances at the Macnaghten-Lemare concerts in the 1930s and who went on to play an important part in British music of the 20th century. www.ashgate.com
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