Edward Macdowell Pioneer In American Music
Broadcast: November 4, 1936
Added: Nov 08 2012
The story that will be told in music and drama on the
Cavalcade of America is the story of a Pioneer in American music, Edward Macdowell. Mrs Macdowell, widow of the composer musician, appears at the start of the program, and gave valuable assistance in the preparation of the story.
Even in the later years of the 19th Century the standing of musicians in America was still very doubtful it remained for a quiet, retiring man to help the American artists to achieve proper recognition in his own country his name was Edward Macdowell and he was born In New York city in 1861. The story begins with a sensitive boy of 12 first practicing on his piano. ...