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Composers of the Week: MacDowell and Hanson

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Bill Lloyd explores the lives and works of two important American romantics. 2: Nobody Becomes an American Composer by Thinking about America
While Composing (Virgil Thomson) Music with the first traces of an American accent.
Peter Dickinson Wild Rose Rag The Composer (piano)
MacDowell From an Indian Lodge; A Deserted Farm; From Uncle Remus (Woodland Sketches, Op 51) James Barbagallo (piano)
Hanson Suite: Merry Mount
Seattle SO, conductor Gerard Schwarz
MacDowell Suite No 2 in E minor
(Indian) Westphalian SO , conductor Siegfried Landau Repeated from last Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Lloyd
Unknown:
Virgil Thomson
Unknown:
Peter Dickinson
Piano:
James Barbagallo
Conductor:
Gerard Schwarz
Conductor:
Westphalian So
Conductor:
Siegfried Landau
Source: Radio Times

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