This is a guest blog post by Dr Kate Kennedy, a Research Fellow at Oxford University. Music by Ivor Gurney and William Denis Browne is featured on the new recording Proud Songsters.   And who loves joy as he That dwells in shadows? Do not forget me quite, O Severn Meadows. Ivor Gurney *** There’s nothing so brutal as a world [...]

This is a guest blog post by Christopher Johnson, a great-nephew of the composer Rebecca Clarke, whose piece The Seal Man is featured on the new recording Proud Songsters. A portrait of Rebecca Clarke, taken 21 July 1925, a few weeks after the London premiere of The Seal Man. Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) billed herself as 'Viola-Player and Composer'. [...]