Dvorak In America

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : Marcato Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812626810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dvořák in America written by Joseph Horowitz and published by Marcato Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Antonin Dvorak's 1890s stay in America, where he took the essences of Indian drums, slave spirituals, and other musical forms and created from them a distinctly new music.

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393881253
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music written by Joseph Horowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dvořák in America, 1892-1895 written by John C. Tibbetts and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burleigh (both African Americans), Horatio Parker, and Maurice Arnold - to forge a uniquely American tradition; they, in turn, became mentors and teachers to a new generation of composers, including Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Duke Ellington. Dvorak heard for himself the "dialects and idioms ... commingled in this great country" and expressed them in his own way in a dozen masterpieces written during his visit. His "New World" Symphony, for example - still the most famous ever written on American soil - was composed in New York amid what he called the "American push" of the streets. And two of his most celebrated chamber works, the F Major Quartet and the E-flat Major Quintet, were written during his travels through the prairies of northeast Iowa, which he described as the "American Sahara." The contributors to this anthology are among the world's most distinguished authorities on Dvorak.

Author : Michael B Beckerman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393047066
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Worlds Of Dvorak With Cd Unabridged Compact Disc written by Michael B Beckerman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reinterpretation of Dvořák's personality and work, Beckerman explores the composer's life and music, focusing on the composer's three-year stay in the United States.

Author : Douglas W. Shadle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190645628
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antonín Dvo%rák's New World Symphony written by Douglas W. Shadle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue. The Big Problem -- The Welcome Arrival -- The Symphonic Premiere -- The Aesthetic Conflict -- The National Question -- The Brewing Storm -- The Fiery Debate -- The Racial Challenge -- The Spiritual Aftermath -- Epilogue. The New World -- Appendix. The Musical Tornado.

Author : Maurice Peress
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195098226
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dvorak to Duke Ellington written by Maurice Peress and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent symphony conductor Maurice Peress describes his career conducting the premiers of such works as Leonard Bernstein's 'Mass' and Duke Ellington's 'Queenie Pie'. He traces the great impact of African American music on American music, beginning with the work of Antonin Dvořák.

Author : Otakar Dvořák
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antonín Dvořák, My Father written by Otakar Dvořák and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a personal biography by Antonin Dvořák's son who at the age of seventy-five years old decided to "write about the events missing from the other books about my father." For musicologists, Otakar's biography of his father contains many new items, but basically the book portrays Dvořák as a father.

Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135759
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Mountains Grew written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.

Author : Joseph Rodman Drake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.EU/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Flag written by Joseph Rodman Drake and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1426220030
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.