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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 3: Challenges and Opportunities

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Episode 3: Challenges and Opportunities

Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000)

Challenges and Opportunities

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Jean Coulthard (1908 -2000), Challenges and Opportunities

Donald Macleod explores Coulthard's year studying in Paris in the 1950s.

Donald Macleod focuses on the 1950s, when Coulthard won a scholarship to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.

In the early 1950s Coulthard's role as lecturer in music theory at the University of British Columbia came under threat, and she was asked to leave. She managed to retain her position but was thankful to be offered a scholarship to study in Paris, where she took classes with Nadia Boulanger. Coulthard resolutely continued to develop her own brand of musical expression, ignoring the critics who berated her for refusing to embrace current trends. Donald Macleod explores works from this period when her style began to change including two very different sets of variations and a setting of poems by Canadian poets in honour of the centenary of the founding of British Columbia.

Villanelle (Cello Sonata)
Ofra Harnoy, cello
Michael Dussek, piano

Music on a Quiet Song
Timothy Hutchins, flute
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi, Conductor 

Variations on B.A.C.H.
John Ogdon, piano

Les Chansons du Coeur
Caroline Schiller, soprano
Kristina Szutor, piano

Music to St. Cecilia
Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra
David Snell, Conductor

Spring Rhapsody
Maureen Forrester, contralto
John Newmark, piano.

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

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