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Dvořák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots

Author: Maurice Peress
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Maurice Peress; Maurice Peress; Antonín Dvořák
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Maurice Peress
ISBN: 0195098226 9780195098228
OCLC Number: 51728680
Description: viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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."
Responsibility: Maurice Peress.
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