Music Meets Drama

  The learning curve for a person when one begins a project, such as The Gena Branscombe Project, is a pretty wide, long and extensive curve. Additional knowledge, for me, was learning about the print publications available during Gena Branscombe’s lifetime.  Articles about Gena appeared in Musical America, which is still in existence, Musical Courier, various New York City newspapers including the New York Times, her hometown newspaper, the Picton Gazette, Musical Leader, The Musician, Musical Narrator, Telegraph and many more.  Published articles about her music and life, her speeches, reviews of performances of her music given by various artists and reviews of her own Branscombe Choral concerts were frequent subjects.  She was met with glowing reviews all around for her songs, her oratorio and her creative and audacious programming of only 20 th century living composers for one of her women’s chorus concerts!   Recently a copy of The American Magazine, O...

The article below, written by John Lyons, pictures The Old Drug Store in downtown Picton, Ontario.  Gena Branscombe's father ran the store as well as having a dentistry office upstairs.  Click on the picture/article to read the history of the Allison and Branscombe families.   #BringingBackBranscombe