Edward MacDowell

I'm Michelle Dane from Bettendorf, and WVIK is my NPR station.

Edward McDowell was a leading American composer of the late Romantic period.

His symphonic poem Lamia was written in 1889 and inspired by the poem of the same name by John Keats.

The story involves an enchantress, serpents, and tragic love, all of which are elegantly composed into the music.

Graceful Ghost from Ghost Rag by William Bolcom.

Lisa De La Salle was at the piano.

Rounding off the hour with music of the American composer Edward McDowell.

We'll hear his symphonic poem Lamia, which was composed in 1889, inspired by the poem of the same name by John Keats.

Organizer of Flonzaley Quartet was Alfred Ponchon, Swiss.

Famous composers include Victor Herbert, Irish, Edward MacDowell, Scot, John Philip Sousa, Portuguese, Percy Grainger, Australian, Eugene Goossens, English, Howard Hanson, Swede, William Grant Still, Negro, Daniel Protheroe, Welsh, Sigmund Romberg, German-Jew, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, Russian-Jews, Emil Gluck, Romanian, Rudolf Friml, Czech.

Outstanding conductors include Gabrilowitsch, Russian-Jew, Walter and Klemperer, German, Koussevitzky and Smolens, Russian-Jews, Stokowski, Polish, Ormandy and Rappe, Hungarians, Ganz, Swiss, Koschets, Ukrainian, Szell, Russian, Busch, Dane, Kindler, Netherlander, Damrosch, German, Rodzinski, Yugoslav, Victor Kolar, Czech.

Leading violin players of worldwide fame are Elman, Heifetz, Zimbalist, Russian-Jews, and Yehudi Menuhin, Romanian-Jew, Ysaye, Belgian, De Foch, Czech, Predakyvych, Ukrainian.