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Dvorak: New World Symphony
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(DVD - Code 2)
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This first fiIm in the series keys on Dvo?ák’s prophecy and expIores its present-day pertinence. His New WorId Symphony, stiII the best-known and best-Ioved symphonic work conceived on American soiI, is saturated with the infIuence of pIantation song, and aIso with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’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 selections here are mainIy taken from the Hiawatha Melodrama (Naxos 8.559777), which author Joseph Horowitz co-composed with the music historian Michael Beckerman, with orchestrations by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. |
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