{"product_id":"dvoraks-prophecy-film-1","title":"Dvořák's New World Symphony - A Lens on the American Experience of Race (Dvořák's Prophecy) (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDVOŘÁK’S PROPHECY – A New Narrative for American Classical Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilm 1: Dvořák’s New World Symphony – A Lens on the American Experience of Race\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA PostClassical Ensemble ‘More than Music’ film\u003cbr\u003eWritten and produced by Joseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003eVisual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first film in the series keys on Dvořák’s prophecy and explores its present-day pertinence. In New York City and Spillville, Iowa, Dvořák boldly chose to regard African Americans and Native Americans as representative Americans. That decision was both acclaimed and ridiculed at the time. It remains inspirational. His New World Symphony, still the best-known and best-loved symphonic work conceived on American soil, is saturated with the influence of plantation song, and also with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha. This act of appropriation, my film argues, was an act of empathy performed by a great humanitarian. The musical selections here are mainly taken from the Hiawatha Melodrama, which I co-composed with the music historian Michael Beckerman with orchestrations by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. It mates Dvořák with Longfellow. The participating commentators include the music historians Mark Clague and Lorenzo Candelaria, the literary historian Brian Yothers, the conductor JoAnn Falletta, faculty members from Howard University – and also (sagely commenting on cultural appropriation) the bass-baritone Kevin Deas, with whom I have long enjoyed the privilege of performing the spiritual arrangements of Dvořák’s assistant Harry Burleigh. – J.H.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic:\u003cbr\u003eAntonín Dvořák\u003cbr\u003eHarry Burleigh\u003cbr\u003eMichael Beckerman\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Horowitz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith\u003cbr\u003eKevin Deas\u003cbr\u003ePostClassical Ensemble\u003cbr\u003eAngel Gil-Ordóñez\u003cbr\u003eMark Clague\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo Candelaria\u003cbr\u003eKehembe Eichelberger\u003cbr\u003eJoAnn Falletta\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Franke\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003eBrian Yothers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePicture format: NTSC 16:9\u003cbr\u003eSound format: PCM Stereo\u003cbr\u003eRegion code: 0 (worldwide)\u003cbr\u003eAudio language: English\u003cbr\u003eRunning time: 83 mins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NAXOS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991899742458,"sku":"2110703","price":9.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/2.110703.jpg?v=1786307273","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/en-de\/products\/dvoraks-prophecy-film-1","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}