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Showing posts with label New World Symphony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New World Symphony. Show all posts
Let tyrants shake their iron rod, And slavery clank her galling chains, We fear them not, we trust in God, New England’s God forever reigns. The foe comes on with haughty stride, Our troops advance with martial noise, Their vet’rans flee before our youth, And gen’rals yield to beardless boys.
Schuman then transports this hymn to the 20th century, by altering its rhythmic and harmonic
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band Timothy Foley, Director Transcribed by William E. Rhoads from William Schuman's orchestration of E. Power Biggs's edition of Ives's variations for organ, S140.
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD: "One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy -imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality."
AUTHOR:Richard Wagner
MEANING OF THE QUOTE: "Creativity starts first in your imagination."
COMPOSER:
ANTONIN DVORAK
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY NO. 9
(Sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 5)
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN E MINOR OP. 95, "From the New World" London Symphony Orchestra
TAKEN FROM THE YOU-TUBE SITE: This is a visual presentation to accompany a live performance of the second and third movements of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World." It was created by Peter Bogdanoff and Joseph Horowitz. The presentation was commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and has since been used by the New York Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, and Berlin's Komische Opera orchestra, among others.
The purpose of the visual presentation is not to propose a program, but to reinstate
the cultural vocabulary shared by Dvořák and his audience of 1893, and so enable
present-day audiences to experience this music as it was experienced when new.
The visual ingredients include excerpts from Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
(acknowledged by Dvorak as a point of inspiration for both movements), renderings
of scenes from Hiawatha, and nineteenth century American paintings by Frederic
Church, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, and Frederic Remington, among others.
This excerpt from the 2014 Naxos recording "Dvořák and America" (Naxos 8.599777) samples the 32-minute "Hiawatha Melodrama" created by Joseph Horowitz and Michael Beckerman, in which Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" is aligned with music by Dvořák (drawn from movements 2, 3, and 4 of the "New World" Symphony; the Larghetto from the Violin Sonatina; and the third movement of the "American" Suite, with orchestration -- where not by Dvořák -- by Angel Gil-Ordóñez).
New York Herald, 16 December 1893: "Dr. Antonin Dvorak, the famous Bohemian composer and director of the National Conservatory of Music, dowered American art with a great work yesterday, when his new symphony in E minor, ‘From the New World,’ was played at the second Philharmonic rehearsal in Carnegie Music Hall. The day was an important one in the musical history of America. It witnessed the first public performance of a noble composition. It saw a large audience of usually tranquil Americans enthusiastic to the point of frenzy over a musical work and applauding like the most excitable ‘Italianissimi’ in the world. The work was one of heroic proportions. And it was one cast in the art form which such poet-musicians as Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and many another ‘glorious one of the earth’ has enriched with the most precious outwellings of his musical imagination. And this new symphony by Dr. Antonin Dvorak is worthy to rank with the best creations of those musicians whom I have just mentioned. [...]"
George Szell, Conductor
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