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Composer of the Week

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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: Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes

Composer of the Week: Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes: Episode 3: Dramatic Ambitions

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Episode 3: Dramatic Ambitions

Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes

Dramatic Ambitions

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes, Dramatic Ambitions

Exploring Chaminade and Holmes's contrasting achievement in opera and ballet.

Donald Macleod looks at Chaminade and Holmes's contrasting achievement in the fields of opera and ballet. While Holmes wrote four operas, Chaminade had one successful ballet.

In today's programme Donald Macleod is joined once again by Marcia Citron and Karen Henson. They consider the events and music which inspired Holmès to write four operas, culminating in the mounting of her opera La Montagne Noire at the Paris Opéra. In contrast, after writing a successful ballet early in her career and despite two attempts at writing an opera, Chaminade never completed a work in either genre thereafter.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes

Donald Macleod, with the help of experts Marcia Citron of Rice University and Karen Henson of Columbia University, explores the life and work of Cecile Chaminade and Augusta Holmes

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