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Article: A composer in Wonderland David Del Tredici credits the MacDowell Colony's magic with helping inspire works like his Pulitzer-winning `Alice' music
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1996
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PETERBOROUGH, N.H. -- On a hill above this extremely elegant mill
town (home of the Brookstone catalog stores, where Martha Stewart
buys her glue guns) sits one of the most unusual summer places in New
England, a home for creative artists who come to work, not to unwind;
arrive to crank up, not idle down. This is the MacDowell Colony,
creation of Edward MacDowell, noted American composer, who, having
lived at the American Academy in Rome, thought New England should
have a summer home for graphic artists, architects, composers and
writers -- the same eclectic mix he so admired in Rome. The first
fellows, and they were, arrived in the summer of 1907.
David Del Tredici, 59, is in residence ...