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Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America
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Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots by Maurice Peress (2008-09-24)
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Language: English

In From Dvorak to Duke Ellington the prominent symphony conductor Maurice Peress describes his career and experiences with American music and musicians Peress conducted the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein s Mass worked with Duke Ellington on the Suite from Black Brown and Beige and Queenie Pie and reconstructed and recreated historic American concerts at which Antheil s Ballet Mecanique Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue and Ellington s Black Brown and Beige were first presented Peress also revisits Dvorak s three year residency in 1892 95 the controversy that greeted his radical notion that composers turn to Negro music for inspiration and the careers of his students who went on to teach Copland Gershwin and Ellington

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