The Boston Six

[Harry]

Second off, can you ever really understand someone else's opinion or taste if it doesn't agree with your own?

Well by the looks of it.....no!

[JoshLilly]

Well that's all right, Harry, I at least understand and fully sympathise with your taste!

[Harry]

Well that's all right, Harry, I at least understand and fully sympathise with your taste!

That is good to know, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much....

[johnQpublic]

Ries flatters Beethoven quite well. 

Back to Fry.

I too have that disc (got it for the Xmas symphony). I really can't say any of it is really good but I was impressed by his ability to deal with large orchestral forces quite handily. He really was an American pioneer of sorts.

[schweitzeralan]

Thought this was a fairly interesting grouping:

Amy Beach (1867-1944)
George Chadwick (1854-1931)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908 )
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906)
Horatio Parker (1863-1919)

I've seen these referred to as the Boston Six.

I've finally managed to hear at least one piece by all of these composers, as our local radio station had played one of the Naxos series of Foote chamber music fairly recently. I liked that fairly well. I didn't know his year of birth at the time, but I'd have guessed he was born much earlier. I might pick up the whole lot eventually, Naxos appears to be releasing all his chamber music.

I have MacDowell's Piano Concerti #1 and #2, and his Second Modern Suite. Other than that, I think that's the only stuff I own by any of these six! So what's up, any recommendations?

Horatio Parker is most famous today as teacher to Charles Ives; he himself was a student of Rheinberger. Edward MacDowell was perhaps Raff's star pupil.

Okay, I'm stretching to avoid initiating a topic with so thin an opening post, but hopefully people can say useful stuff about these 6, and their music, and stuff.

I guess that Arthur Farwell is not considered to be a member of the "Boston Six."

[Szykneij]

I guess that Arthur Farwell is not considered to be a member of the "Boston Six."

Probably too much of a nomad to have developed the requisite Boston accent. 

Also, probably born a few years too late.

[schweitzeralan]

Probably too much of a nomad to have developed the requisite Boston accent. 

Also, probably born a few years too late.

Got it.  Thanks.  I asked because he did reside in boston for a whilebut aso 'moved around." good comser, though.

[Symphonic Addict]

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