Author: ferdiastonedavis

Introducing a podcast series with Férdia J. Stone-Davis and Charissa Granger The idea of a podcast looking at music, sound, and freedom came in the wake of a collaborative intervention that Férdia and Charissa made to a CRASSH trans-disciplinary symposium, Rhythm as Knowledge. As part of

Leah Broad’s Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World (Faber 2023) is an exhilarating read. The author immerses us in the lives of four composers who have been forgotten (or, perhaps better put, have been excised) from western music history and canon: Ethel Smyth (b. 1858),