{"product_id":"dvoraks-prophecy-film-4","title":"Aaron Copland: American Populist (Dvořák's Prophecy) DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003eDVOŘÁK’S PROPHECY – A New Narrative for American Classical Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilm 4: Aaron Copland: American Populist\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\u003eBuffeted by social and political currents, Copland can seem unmoored: a cork in a stream. He was politicised by the Depression – and by the example of Mexico, whose artists galvanised national identity and progressive thought. He wrote a prize-winning workers’ song and addressed a Communist picnic in Minnesota. Twenty years later, the Red Scare targeted him as a traitor. Can his odyssey be read as a parable illuminating the fate of the American artist? This film features a re-enactment of Copland’s grilling by Senator Joseph McCarthy (played by Edward Gero). It also highlights the most consequential Copland score we don’t know: his ingenious music for Lewis Mumford’s 1939 World’s Fair film The City, itself a complex product of the Popular Front. We reconsider the valedictory Piano Fantasy, in which Copland refreshed his modernist roots – a galvanising performance by Benjamin Pasternack, who also recalls a telling encounter with the composer. Our other commentators include the American historians Michael Kazin and Joseph McCartin, who ponder the tangled legacy of American populism of the left and right. – J.H.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic:\u003cbr\u003eAaron Copland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Pasternack\u003cbr\u003ePostClassical Ensemble\u003cbr\u003eAngel Gil-Ordóñez\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Guinan\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003eMichael Kazin\u003cbr\u003eBeth Levy\u003cbr\u003eJoseph McCartin\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo Candelaria\u003cbr\u003eEdward Gero\u003cbr\u003eMurray Horwitz\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: 78 mins\u003cbr\u003eNo. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NAXOS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991904428282,"sku":"2110698","price":9.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/2.110698.jpg?v=1786306892","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/en-de\/products\/dvoraks-prophecy-film-4","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}