Just got to the Royal Albert Hall to do the radio interval for tonight's prom! Tune in to BBC Radio 3 at 6pm tonight to hear Alexandra Dariescu give the Proms premiere of Nadia Boulanger's Fantasie Variée with the Hallé, and Rachmaninoff & Ravel

For women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...

UK petition to require AI firms to disclose training data, so creators can identify use of copyright work petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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@leahbroad.bsky.social I have just finished listening to Quartet, so jumping on to say thank you for such a fascinating and frustrating listen.

We’re thrilled by the launch of @leahbroad.bsky.social Unheard Heritage with Resonus Classics initiative! 💿 Read more: 📰 www.gramophone.co.uk/content/news... ✏️ www.colinscolumn.com/forgotten-mu... #InaBoyle #ElizabethMaconchy #UnheardHeritage #WomenInMusic #ClassicalMusic #Composers

Unheard Heritage & Resonus Classics launch recording initiative - Gramophone

Founded by Leah Broad each album will revives great, forgotten music for new audiences

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Very proud to be part of this with @leahbroad.bsky.social Samantha Ege, and the team at Resonus.

Unheard Heritage & Resonus Classics launch recording initiative - Gramophone

Founded by Leah Broad each album will revives great, forgotten music for new audiences

gramophone.co.uk

🧵 the extraordinary Ethel Smyth b.1858 💥 Trailblazing pioneer 1️⃣ First 🇬🇧 woman to write opera 🗳️ Composed anthem for women’s suffrage ♥️ Emmeline Pankhurst ♥️ ♥️ Virgina Woolf ♥️ 📕 Celebrated author One of four groundbreaking women composers in @leahbroad.bsky.social wonderful 📕 Quartet See Alt-text

Recommend subscribing to @leahbroad.bsky.social 's Slow Listening substack. Just listened to Imogen Holst's Mass in A minor while soaking in the bathtub of a NYC hotel, 10/10 experience, would recommend. leahbroad.substack.com/p/slow-liste...

Imogen Holst, Mass in A Minor (1927)

Slow Listening #8

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If you're in Oxford on the 1st July, I'll be performing with powerhouse violin & piano duo Fenella Humphreys and Nicola Eimer, playing works from my forthcoming book! Please come along - there will be Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Josephine Baker... artsfestivaloxford.org/events/unsun...

Unsung The Wartime Violin - Oxford Festival of the Arts

Award-winning artists Fenella Humphreys, Nicola Eimer, and Leah Broad bring you the Second World War through the lives of women musicians who entertained the troops, kept hope alive on the Home Front,...

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Went to the Royal Ballet & Opera's AI & music festival, & left thinking about how creatives can speak out on AI. "Even if Big Tech is not listening to artists, audiences are. Public opinion about the way technologies are being developed and deployed matters." leahbroad.substack.com/p/what-can-c...

Absolutely obsessed with this album at the moment, having first encountered the cello concerto via @leahbroad.bsky.social's Slow Listening on Substack (another recommendation there). I'm now hoovering up as many other Tabakova recordings as I can find.

Dear Betty, Dearest Grace Why friendship is important for creative women via @leahbroad.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

Dear Betty, Dearest Grace

Why friendship is important for creative women

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*NEW POST* This week I'm exploring the beautful, fifty-year-long friendship between composers Grace Williams and Elizabeth Maconchy. They have so much to teach us about the importance of friendship for creative women ❤️

It’s really frightening.

“If you wanted to democratise music-making,” Daniel Lewis comments, “there’s this amazing thing I once heard of called ‘state education’ and giving kids flutes.” It might not be as novel — but you can buy an awful lot of flutes for the $250mn raised in Suno’s last funding round.”

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm in the @financialtimes.com this weekend, looking at the impact of AI on classical music. www.ft.com/content/0216...

I'm in the @financialtimes.com this weekend, looking at the impact of AI on classical music. www.ft.com/content/0216...

Classical music has survived for centuries. Will AI kill it?

Composers have always experimented with new technology — but the latest advances threaten ‘skill death’ in this centuries-old art form

ft.com

Second sentence - illustrates what @leahbroad.bsky.social has shown about the LLM accuracy gap for less widely researched topics: Delia Derbyshire is swapped in for [Daphne] Oram as if they’re same person. See Broad’s essay here: open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

Why we should care about ChatGPT's accuracy gap

I tested ChatGPT on my area of expertise. The results are a problem for future knowledge

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People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

*NEW POST* "The language and labels we use to describe musicians matter just as much as which pieces get recorded and published and performed." On Ethel Smyth's legacy and the "woman composer" label substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

The problem of being Ethel Smyth

I've got a new chapter out on the reception of British "women" composers

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*NEW POST* The new Michael Jackson film ignores the allegations against him. It's also had the most successful opening weekend of any biopic. This week's post is about why we need ways of talking about brilliant musicians that doesn't laud them as heroes. leahbroad.substack.com/p/does-artis...

First instalment of Slow Listening is tonight! Starting with one of my all-time favourite pieces. It's nerve-wracking putting such a vulnerable piece of writing out there, so thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed. I'm looking forward to listening with you all.

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing. leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-startin...

Great job for an early music person!!

La Nuova Musica@lanuovamusica.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rare career opportunity! La Nuova Musica is seeking an experienced arts manager to become its new Executive Director. This is a part-time role based anywhere in the UK, with flexibility to travel for concerts. Details: www.lanuovamusica.co.uk/news/recruit...

I'm really thrilled to be joining with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social for their new 'Revealed' series, unwrapping pieces by Mozart and Tchaikovsky for the 26-27 season. Mozart first, at Cadogan Hall on 1st October - come join us! Tix on sale next Tuesday www.rpo.co.uk/tickets-memb...

Mozart Revealed - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Get under the skin of Mozart’s last symphony, as the RPO retells the story of a masterwork.

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If @leahbroad.bsky.social recommends something to listen to, I trust her judgement utterly. So this is very nice news indeed.

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing. leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-startin...

I'm in. How about you?

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing. leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-startin...

So many important points about our current condition and the power of slow listening!

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing. leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-startin...

**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing. leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-startin...

Come offline, and listen slowly with me

Come offline, and listen slowly with me

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Up bright and early with obligatory coffee for a WORLD PREMIERE recording of Ina Boyle choral works with St Martin's Voices & @resonus.bsky.social!! Paired with Maconchy and sounding incredible so far - stay tuned...

Thank you so much @tomgatti.bsky.social & @theobserveruk.bsky.social for showcasing the richness of non-fiction by women & the vitally important work of @womensprize.bsky.social in championing women's voices in literature. (1/2) observer.co.uk/culture/book...

‘This was literature as gelignite’: writers on life-chang...

Ahead of the Women’s Prize for nonfiction 2026 shortlist, we asked some of our favourite writers to share the books that shaped their writing lives

observer.co.uk

No, misogyny isn't a thing of the past If it feels like feminism has achieved its goals, you’re not paying enough attention via @leahbroad.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

No, misogyny isn't a thing of the past

If it feels like feminism has achieved its goals, you’re not paying enough attention.

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