Episode 1
Donald Macleod explores the MacDowell Colony, an artistic residency programme founded in 1907 by American composer Edward MacDowell.
The MacDowell Colony founded in 1907 by the American composer Edward MacDowell and his pianist wife Marian. America's first artistic residency programme has played host to more than six thousand artists. As part of its centenary year celebrations, in 2007 Donald Macleod was allowed exclusive access to the colony set in its own grounds in New Hampshire, USA. There he meets composer Stewart Wallace, working on his Opera The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Blake Tewksbury, an authority on the MacDowell Colony. He looks back at the Colony's history, with the help of Robin Rausch, Music Specialist at the Library of Congress in Washington.
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Edward MacDowell
To a wildrose
Performer: James Barbagallo (piano)
- Naxos 8223631.
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Edward MacDowell
To the Sea from Sea Sketches, op 55
Performer: Alexandra Oehler (piano)
- Ars Musici AM 12122.
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Edward MacDowell
From a Log Cabin (New England Idylls, op.62)
Performer: James Barbagallo (piano)
- Naxos 8.223631.
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Stewart Wallace
Prologue to The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Private recording.
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Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid (suite)
Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Performer: Eugene Ormandy
- BMG 09026 63267-2.
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Edward MacDowell
Introduction excerpt from to the Haunted House
Performer: Marian MacDowell
- By kind permission of the Library of Congress, Washington.
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Amy Beach
A Hermit thrust at Eve, op 92
Performer: Virginia Eskin (piano)
- Koch 372542.
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