| Contents |
A composer goes to America -- Dvorak and Hiawatha. Hiawatha and the largo -- The 'local color of the Indian character' and the scherzo -- A nose for Hiawatha -- Dvorak's Hiawatha opera -- Dvorak among the journalists. Two who made the 'New World' -- The real value of yellow journalism -- Dvorak, Krehbiel, and the 'New World' -- American influences, American landscapes. Burleigh and Dvorak: from the plantation to the symphony -- A Spillville pastoral -- Inner and outer visions of America: Dvorak's suite and Biblical Songs -- Some American snapshots -- The hidden Dvorak. The master is not well -- A cello concerto, a death - and secrets -- Between a ring and a hard place: Dvorak's Homeric Wagner -- Appendix. "Negro music," / Johann Tonsor. |
| Abstract |
The author has written a knowledgeable and engaging account of Dvorak's intellectual and musical activity during the years 1892-1895, when he was in the US (when he composed the New World Symphony). The influences of American ideas, melodies, and images on Dvorak's music are the book's main themes as Beckerman describes the people whose activities effected Dvorak's work, including the philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, music critic James Huneker, and African-American singer and composer Henry Thacker Burleigh. |
| General note | Accompanying sound recording consists of various excerpts, indexed on pages 267-272 of the text. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-255) and index. |
| Bibliography note | CD contents (pages 267-272). |
| LCCN | 2002026590 |
| ISBN | 0393047067 |
