RE: Composer of the week #9 (Katchaturian, Schumann and Nielsen) (SBD Share)

This is the first time I've come across your Composer of the Week so I didn't quite understand the part about "shares" (one here, three on Discord) - maybe you could enlighten me. My comment takes the form of a mini programme note:

Rebecca Clarke (1886−1979) is counted as an English composer and indeed she was born, brought up and died there, although her mother was German, her father American, and she spent at least part of her adult life in the US. She’s best known for chamber music using her own instrument, the viola, and my selection - written in 1940 or 41, so a wartime piece - is a particularly beautiful example. As with the much more famous Fantasia by Vaughan Williams, the “old tune” of the title is attributed to Thomas Tallis. Exploiting the viola’s rich, veiled timbre to the full, the piece begins in sombre, restrained style but becomes more impassioned as it unfolds. It deserves to be better known, in my opinion.