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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

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

Composer of the Week: Women of the MacDowell Colony

Composer of the Week: Women of the MacDowell Colony: Episode 2: Colony Hall

Women of the MacDowell Colony

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Episode 2: Colony Hall

Colony Hall

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Women of the MacDowell Colony, Colony Hall

Music by Marion Bauer, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Mary Howe.

Donald Macleod explores a musical response to the shadows and shapes of the MacDowell colony's woodlands. Plus music by Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Mary Howe.

Donald Macleod and music historian Robin Rausch uncover more of the the music inspired by the idyllic setting of the MacDowell 'colony'. Today the beauty of New England takes centre stage in a musical response to the shadows and shapes of the colony's woodlands. And if there were any doubting the cultural significance of the site we gauge the impact of five tranquil summers which helped Amy Beach compose fifty works at a time when the rise of modernism was setting stern challenges to every composer.

Bauer: From the New Hampshire Woods, Op.12 (White Birches)Virginia Eskin, piano

Bauer: Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings, Op.32b
Jeremy Polmear, oboe
Eli Eban, clarinet
Ambache Ensemble

Crawford Seeger: Violin Sonata
Mia Wu, violin
Cheryl Seltzer, piano

Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra
Schönberg Ensemble
Oliver Knussen, conductor

Beach: Quartet for Strings in One Movement, Op.89
The Lark Quartet

Mary Howe: Stars
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
William Strickland, conductor.

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.

Focusing on the work of the female composers who have visited the MacDowell Colony

Donald Macleod explores the work of the many female composers who have visited the Edward MacDowell artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire

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