Point taken, Mark.
But it's a nice little dream...?
Doug
On 3-Jan-08, at 2:38 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Bernstein, in a tv talk about Dvorak's New World Symphony, questioned
> the old standby that it was full of American musical themes. He
> pointed out that Dvorak spent his entire trip, except when performing,
> in the Moravian settlements of Pennsylvania, and probably didn't get
> to hear much "american" music. Nonetheless, the slow movement became
> the ersatz negro [sic] spiritual "Going Home." Bernstein suggested
> that this was a product of US imagination. Would it sound different if
> we imagined the words "Czechoslovakia, how I long for thee?"
>
> Mark
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