Symphony #9 "From the New World"

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Antonín Dvorák

https://www.weta.org/listen-live

SORRY misplaced this, as I'm not a home so 'confused!'

Here's the playlist:

http://www.weta.org/fm/playlists

Beethoven's #8 coming up.

and at 2:13, Symphony #3 "Scottish"

Felix Mendelssohn

LISTEN to this one later, my fave but I won't be able to listen because playing with my grands!
6:55 pm
Turkish Rondo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Robert Riefling (piano)
Aurora 1929 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol. 3)

[tymorial]

1. One of my favorites

Dvorak was one of the first composers to weave folk music and folk melodies into his compositions. He spent several years in America and this symphony was a product of that period. Though his music retains a Bohemian style, his time in New York led to a collaboration with Jeannette Thurber from the National Conservatory of Music in New York. She had been working towards developing an American style and asked Dvorak to become director of the conservatory; a position he held for three years. Dvorak was fascinated by native American melodies and African American spirituals. The second movement Largo was based on a spiritual. There are other works from this period which are lovely. Dvorak would spend summers in Spillville, Iowa which was a settlement of Czech immigrants. Dvorak wrote the American Quartet there, placed the finishing touches on New World and legend has it wrote his famous Humoresque after strolls through the nearby woods.

His American Suite was written after but has qualities of both American and Czech folk music.

[elleng]

2. Good reasons his music is so POPULAR, I suppose.

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3. Egmont: Overture

playing now.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Pro Arte 392 (Beethoven: Overtures)