Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers'' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s - a time when, in Britain, as Williams noted, a woman composer was considered ''very odd indeed''. Even so, by the early 1940s all three had made r...