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Tuesday 2 October 2001 |
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The composer, Ethel Smyth, was - she said - "the most interesting I know, and I don't care if anyone else thinks so" - this from someone who was friends with Brahms, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky!
Nowadays, she's probably best known for The March of the Women - the suffragette anthem - and for conducting it with a toothbrush from the window of her cell in Holloway Prison, while she was imprisoned with other suffragettes.
This week, she's Radio 3's Composer of the Week. To celebrate the fact, Rebecca Nicholson has been trawling through the archives to compile a tribute.
It includes an interview with the late Ronald Crichton, who'd worked on her memoirs, and Sir Thomas Beecham - who seems to have been something of a fan.
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