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...Dvorak: Quartet No. 6 in F Major (Budapest Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). One of the first composers to try to write typically U. S. music was Czech Anton Dvorak who lived in the U. S. from 1892 to 1895. Today Composer Dvorak's lively "American Quartet," though engagingly tuneful, sounds more like a Czech Dumka than a U. S. foxtrot. The Budapesters give it a finely tooled performance...
...Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March-Schuhplattler-Hog Dance-Zwoaschritt *Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise-Intermezzo-Gypsy Dance *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Bizet *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Allegro con fuoco "Smoke Drift" Peggy Stuart Piano soloist: PEGGY STUART (First performance) *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *First Slavonic Dance Dvorak...
...Stradivarius Quartet will give a concert tonight in the John Knowles Paine Hall of the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained free of charge by application at the Music Building. The program will be composed of Dvorak's Quartet in F Major, Opus 96, Haydn's Quartet, Opus 3, Number 5, and Hindemith's Quartet Number...
...studying the development of modern American classical music, the extent of the influence of the Negro folk song can easily be underestimated. The beginning of this influence was the enthusiasm of Dvorak after his visit to America in the late 1890's, and the effect that it had on the young American composers of the time. Following his lead, a small school of devotees grew up, but produced, unfortunately, no work of outstanding merit. In 1924, the French composer, Darius Milhaud, wrote: ". . . Negro music, with its deep human content which is about to create as complete a revolution...
...original form might well be and often are the products of a folk group rather than a single genius. And the possibilities of transforming these so-called "simple" Negro melodies into classical music of tremendous power are shown by the popularity and genuine artistic merit such a work as Dvorak's New World Symphony...