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The Kindness of Strangers: Edward MacDowell and Breslau
Bomberger features the life and works of Edward Alexander MacDowell and history of Breslau. Born to a nonmusical family in New York City in 1860, MacDowell had few advantages for building a career other than his natural talent and ambition. By 1900, though, he was widely acknowledged as the greatest classical composer America had ever produced, and by his death in 1908 he was eulogized on both sides of the Atlantic as the first American classical composer to achieve a major international reputation. He found, as did many of his contemporaries, that success in the competitive music world of the late nineteenth century required hard work, influential friends, patience, and luck. Famously, he received timely help from Franz Liszt, a former colleague of MacDowell's teacher Joachim Raff, who selected his Erste mod erne Suite, op. 10, for performance at the 1882 gathering of the Ailgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV) in Zurich.
Journal Article
Edward MacDowell's Mysterious Malady
During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the fair-haired boy of serious American music was Edward MacDowell. Schwab sets out to prove that MacDowell was a victim of syphilis and that his wife wanted to bury the fact with her husband.
Journal Article
Edward MacDowell, Antimodernism, and “Playing Indian” in the Indian Suite
Gardner offers a critical analysis of Edward MacDowell's Second Suite for Orchestra, better known as the Indian Suite. MacDowell used Indians as his antimodernist vehicle. The competing emotions of desire and repulsion play themselves out in the Indian Suite.
Journal Article
Edward Macdowell, Arthur P. Schmidt, and the Shakespeare Overtures of Joachim Raff: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Music Publishing
Studies a series of five unpublished letters of Edward Macdowell to Doris Raff, widow of his former teacher Joachim Raff, and points out that they demonstrate MacDowell's affection for his former teacher and also provides insight into the process of transatlantic publication before the Copyright Act of 1891.
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The legacy of Edward MacDowell
Musician Edward MacDowell knew that artists from different disciplines could stimulate each other's artistic growth. He and his wife, Marian MacDowell, formed a community for artists to work together in the woods of New Hampshire, and this became known as the MacDowell Colony.
Trade Publication Article
Edward MacDowell as Pianist
Information about composer Edward Alexander MacDowell's work as a pianist is scant. Though MacDowell could play with power and propulsion, he was primarily a colorist, and he balanced intense expression with solid musicianship.
Journal Article
For artists only ; MacDowell, the oldest artists' colony in the US, gives some 200 people a year room, board, and a quiet place to think
To keep in better touch with the townspeople of Peterborough, the colony has begun a series of monthly presentations called MacDowell Downtown. In April, colonist Tom Gilroy shared scenes from \"Spring Forward,\" his movie starring Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott, and provided a glimpse at the world of filmmaking. When Mr. Gilroy was trying to cast veteran Hollywood actor Ned Beatty for a key part, he told the audience, he was getting nowhere with Beatty's agent. Accommodating the artists often trumps tradition. Though the original concept was for studios used only during the workday, with living quarters and meals in Colony Hall, some of the studios now are full live-ins, with kitchens and bedrooms. [Cheryl Young] acknowledges that the staff can be softies - they've even quietly installed an air-conditioner (rarely needed in the cool New Hampshire woods) if the artist claims to absolutely need it. One persistent rumor among colonists is that one of the new studios has a hot tub. It's not quite true, but the studio does have a bathtub next to a picture window with a marvelous view. Soon a lunch basket arrives on the doorstep. The basket is a time- honored MacDowell tradition, left quietly on each doorstep so as to not disturb the occupant. (Mine is filled with a thermos of soup, a veggie sandwich, cookies, and other goodies.)I've promised to visit an artist in her studio for lunch, so I grab my basket and coat and head out with a map to navigate the deserted gravel roads through the woods. Thoughts of Little Red Riding Hood fill my head.
Newspaper Article
Edward MacDowell: An American
\"Edward MacDowell: An American Master\" by Alan H. Levy is reviewed.
Book Review
Edward MacDowell: An American Master / Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
Dickinson reviews \"Edward MacDowell: An American Master\" by Alan H. Levy and \"Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944\" by Adrienne Fried Block.
Book Review