|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
|
Buy Now
Dvorak to Duke Ellington - A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,395
Discovery Miles 13 950
|
|
|
Dvorak to Duke Ellington - A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the
personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which
Dvoak so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing
narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind
the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond.
In Dvorak to Duke Ellington, Peress begins by recounting the
music's formative years: Dvorak's three year residency as Director
of the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1892-1895), and
his students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark,
who would in turn become the teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and
Copland. We follow Dvorak to the famed Chicago World's Fair of
1893, where he directed a concert of his music for Bohemian Honor
Day. Peress brings to light the little known African American
presence at the Fair: the piano professors, about-to-be-ragtimers;
and the gifted young artists Paul Dunbar, Harry T. Burleigh, and
Cook, who gathered at the Haitian Pavilion with its director,
Frederick Douglass, to organize their own gala concert for Colored
Persons Day.
Peress, a distinguished conductor, is himself a part of this
story; working with Duke Ellington on the Suite from Black, Brown
and Beige and his "opera comique," Queenie Pie; conducting the
world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass; and reconstructing
landmark American concerts at which George Antheil's Ballet
Mecanique, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, James Reese Europe's
Clef Club (the first all-black concert at Carnegie Hall), and
Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, were first presented.
Concluding with an astounding look at Ellington and his music,
Dvorak to Duke Ellingtonoffers an engrossing, elegant portrait of
the Dvorak legacy, America's music, and the inestimable
African-American influence upon it.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
