Discipline: Music Composition

Gardner Read

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Manchester, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1936, 1937, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953

Studios

MacDowell

Gardner Read worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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