Diana Barnato Walker was one of some 154 women pilots who flew with the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during the Second World War, ferrying all manner of aircraft from factories and aircraft parks to service units all over the British Isles, often in adverse weather and with a bare sufficiency of instrumentation.
Henry Brant was one of the youngest of the pre-Second World War American experimental composers. He scored for odd instruments and instrumental combinations and equalised "high" and "low" art forms and topics. He was best known for his work in spatial music, a kind of "surround sound" effect informed by Renaissance antiphony, Berlioz and Charles Ives, which both predated and outstripped similar
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