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Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvor'ak so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond. In Dvor'ak to Duke Ellington, Peress begins by recounting the music's formative years: Dvor'ak's three year residency as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1892-1895), and his students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark, who would in turn become the teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and Copland. We follow Dvor'ak to the famed Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where he directed a concert of his music for Bohemian Honor Day. Peress brings to light the little known African American presence at the Fair: the piano professors, about-to-be-ragtimers; and the gifted young artists Paul Dunbar, Harry T. Burleigh, and Cook, who gathered at the Haitian Pavilion with its director, Frederick Douglass, to organize their own gala concert for Colored Persons Day. Peress, a distinguished conductor, is himself a part of this story; working with

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Author

Maurice Peress

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195374476

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts