Dvořák to Duke Ellington [electronic resource] : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / Maurice Peress.
By: Peress, Maurice.
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Peress, Maurice | Music -- United States -- African American influencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes discography (p. 241-242), bibliographical references (p. 243-244), and index.
Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".
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