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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: Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000)

Composer of the Week: Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000): Episode 2: Expanding Horizons

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Episode 2: Expanding Horizons

Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000)

Expanding Horizons

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000), Expanding Horizons

Donald Macleod on how WWII gave Coulthard the opportunity to improve her writing skills.

Donald Macleod looks at the outbreak of World War II, which gave Coulthard the opportunity to study with a number of emigre composers as they left Europe for the US and Canada.

The outbreak of World War II brought European artists to the USA and Canada and gave Coulthard the opportunity to study with a number of established composers, including Arthur Benjamin. He encouraged her to write for orchestra and incorporated her music into his concert series. Coulthard spent much of the war in New York where she benefitted from lessons with the Dutch composer Bernard Wagenaar, who helped her consolidate a new-found confidence in her writing. Donald Macleod introduces a sonata in which that new sense of certainty shines through, plus an early orchestral work with evocations of happy holidays, a choral song which reflects the spirit of renewal in post-war Canada, and music to celebrate the patron saint of music.

Threnody
University of Alberta Madrigal Singers

Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner, Conductor

Music to St. Cecilia for organ and strings
Patrick Wedd, organ
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi, Conductor 

Cello Sonata
Joan Harrison, cello
Elaine Keillor, piano

Quebec in May
Elmer Iseler Singers
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Elmer Iseler, Conductor.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Canadian composer Jean Coulthard

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