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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 3: Natural Forces

Women of the MacDowell Colony

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Episode 3: Natural Forces

Natural Forces

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How artists rallied to rebuild the MacDowell Colony after a storm devastated it in 1938.

Donald Macleod discusses the role of composers such as Amy Beach as artists rallied to rebuild the MacDowell Colony after a storm destroyed much of it in 1938.

The colony is tested to the full by a storm, in 1938, which destroys much of the site including 250 acres of woodland. Donald Macleod and historian Robin Rausch explore the role of composers such as Amy Beach as artists rallied to rebuild their treasured haven. And he also relives his own visit in 2007 when he took on a meals-on-wheel role, delivering lunches to 32 artist studios across the site. Plus, we hear another response to the colony's glorious surroundings, this time from composer Mabel Daniels who returned to MacDowell over 25 summers.

Bauer: Trio Sonata No 1 for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op.40 (1944) - 1st movt 
Jonathan Snowden, flute
Judith Herbert, cello
Diana Ambache, piano

Amy Beach: Improvisations, Op.148 
Kirsten Johnson, piano

Mabel Daniels: Deep Forest (1931) 
Imperial Philharmonic Orchestra Tokyo 
William Strickland, conductor

Beach: Piano Trio, Op.150 (1939) 
The Ambache Ensemble

Bauer: Symphonic Suite (1940)
Ambache Chamber Orchestra.

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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