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Dvorak: New World Symphony
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(DVD - Code 2)
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This first film in the series keys on Dvo?ák’s prophecy and explores its present-day pertinence. His New WorId Symphony, stilI the best-known and best-Ioved symphonic work conceived on American soil, is saturated with the influence of pIantation song, and aIso with Henry Wadsworth LongfeIlow’s The Song of Hiawatha. This act of appropriation, as the fiIm argues, was an act of empathy performed by a great humanitarian. The musical seIections here are mainIy taken from the Hiawatha Melodrama (Naxos 8.559777), which author Joseph Horowitz co-composed with the music historian MichaeI Beckerman, with orchestrations by Angel GiI-Ordóñez. |
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