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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: The MacDowell Colony (1907-)

Composer of the Week: The MacDowell Colony (1907-): Episode 3

Episode 3

The MacDowell Colony (1907-)

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Donald Macleod finds out what life was like for early residents of the MacDowell Colony.

Donald Macleod finds out what life was like at the MacDowell Colony for early residents such as composers Amy Beach, Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

The founder of the MacDowell colony, American composer Edward MacDowell believed that the creative artists need uninterupted time and space and the opportunity to meet and share ideas with artists from the other disciplines. On a visit to the MacDowell colony in 2007, Donald Macleod visits animator, artist and photographer Corrie Francis in one of the studios and finds out what life was like for the early residents, including composers Amy Beach, Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the MacDowell Colony, founded in 1907 by Edward MacDowell

Donald Macleod explores the musical history of the MacDowell Colony, an artistic residency programme founded in 1907 by American composer Edward MacDowell

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