EPISODE · Jun 14, 2020 · 15 MIN
Episode 4 Music for Marconi's Secret Engineer
from Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations · host electric voice theatre
https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/Essex born composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is embarking on a commission for electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre. Cheryl will be creating a work for 2 female voices and electronics which connects the famous concert given by Dame Nellie Melba broadcast from Marconi’s New Street Works in Chelmsford on June 15th 1920, with tests there by a local singer, Winifred Sayer earlier that year, and with Marconi’s Secret WW2 Radio Engineer Florence Attridge who was born in Chelmsford on June 14th 1901.
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