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
At 01:29 PM 1/3/2008, you wrote:
>That would be the Daniel Jones who was childhood chums
>with Dylan Thomas, verdad?
>
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>On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>Well, like Fred, I found the footnote fascinating, & the comment on
>>Janacek, whose String Quartets I am coming to love.
>>
>>This point is interesting to me with reference to the quartets of
>>Daniel Jones -- romantically modern in their Welsh way....
>>
>>Doug
>>On 31-Dec-07, at 3:27 PM, Roger Day wrote:
>>
>>>the cadences of all the various Englishes are different also. I
>>>wonder
>>>if Patel means English English, which as chalk to cheese compared to,
>>>say, Welsh English etc. It's PC to say British English but as we all
>>>know, Britain doesn't really exist.
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>On Dec 31, 2007 10:09 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> From a footnote [p.242]in Oliver Sacks's new book, Musicophilia...
>>>>
>>>>'What makes the music of Sir Edward Elgar sound so distinctively
>>>>English?'
>>>>they [Iversen, Patel and Ohgushi of the Neurosciences Institute]
>>>>ask. 'What
>>>>makes the music of Debussy sound so French?
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>>Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
>>
>> Dwight D, Eisenhower
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