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Article: The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premier Artists' Community.(Book review)
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The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premier Artists' Community. By Bridget Falconer-Salkeld. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. [xi, 467 p. ISBN 0-8108-5419-8. $55.] Index, bibliography, illustrations.
The MacDowell Colony for creative artists in Peterborough, New Hampshire has been fostering the careers of composers, writers, and visual artists for almost one hundred years. Some of the most distinguished names in American arts and letters are on its rolls: Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, James Baldwin, and Leonard Bernstein number among them. The colony's underlying philosophy is based on Edward MacDowell's belief that artists ...
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Article: WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM MACDOWELL COLONY TO BE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 22, 2007 ;
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... ... following news release: Since 1907, The MacDowell Colony has offered a creative sanctuary to ... women composers in residence at The MacDowell Colony were Gena Branscombe (1881-1977 ... titled "A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony 1907-2007," which marks the Colony ...
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