The Story Of Dvorak in Words & Music
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The Story Of Dvorak In Words and Music
I'm posting this simply because I am such a huge fan of this obscure series which numbers multiple CD's of the history/life story of well known classical composers.
Hopefully not too 'dry' for any listeners, but I just love these so much that I wanted to share some of them from time to time. Hopefully they won't get blocked.
Very good. Getting a grasp into Dvorak’s life and music. A composer who is not really looked upon as one of the greats but should be.
Utterly beautiful
This is a surprisingly pleasant way to learn of Dvorak and his place in history. In university myself and the rest of a class were stuck with an inept professor for Music History. He was undoubtedly a world class organist of some notoriety, he just didn't have a knack for teaching. The class had even thought about requesting a change of teacher. We found out it was his last year before retiring so we figured on giving him a chance. To our dismay he couldn't follow the text book we had to study from and he'd go off on tangents about his travels and experiences in his career. Once before a mid term exam he actually gave the directions on how to get to a cafe he liked somewhere in Paris! A fellow student asked him if this would be on the exam!!! lol Anyhow we finished the year with him performing a different piece on piano for each class. Entertaining as it was, we learned sfa about music history. I still have many gaps to fill in the area of classical music and composers. My Jazz pedagogy is somewhat more complete (though there's always something new to learn).
Have a great day Gary.
-Glenn
I'm so glad you're enjoying this Glenn. I stumbled across this series and tried one out and just really enjoyed it. Besides being in school or picking up a book there's not too many other ways to get an overview of a specific composers life. Yeah, for some reason it's easier to learn about the jazz artists i find as well. perhaps it's because they're much more current (pretty much only the last 100 years).....
A great story on your music history teacher-thanks for sharing buddy!!!!
-Gary
This is an excellent summary of Dvorak, his career and his music. He was a wonderful melodic composer.
@@cosmicpickle6562 Hi. I realize I'm late to the party as you posted this 3 years ago... just wondering if you ever posted any more. I see it's part of a Vox collection. Thanks.
@@pbandnv Hello. I believe somewhere around this same period that I did post a couple of other composers from this same series. However, after being up for over 3 years I know only recently did I begin to get copyright notifications for these, so the others may have been blocked from UA-cam in recent times sad to say. It kind of surprised me to be honest considering all of the actual music up here on UA-cam, but it seems these recordings have both audio (spoken word) content as well as exceprts from musical performances that are also copyright and I believe it was the actual musical excepts which were the reason for the copyright notices even though they are incredibly tiny sections only from the full pieces. So for now looking at all my videos here I only see this one as remaining from this series. Not too long ago I also did get a copyright notice on this one believe it or not, but so far it seems UA-cam hasn't actually blocked it yet. I think the whole series is wonderful (I don't have all of them myself) and certainly fairly unique as audio biographies go.
-Gary
This is quite good. What a story about the Brahms friendship! Makes me want to
go to Bohemia. But most of all, I want to listen to ALL he has written and get to know him better. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank You!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much...this is great!
You're welcome, Matt. I enjoy these historical musical profile discs as well and i'm glad when I find others who also appreciate them.
I kept telling myself that I was going to exit the video soon. I learned to stop lying to myself.
Well, it is a worthwhile listen I think you'll find-after all, that's why I posted it!
I am often surprised by knowing much of his music eg Songs My Mother Taught Me, yet not realising that AD was the composer. Perhaps the reason is that much of it sounds modern.
thanks for the info!
You're welcome-
Dvorak also wrote a quintet in spilsville which incorporated Native American rhythms in it.
Very nice buddy. Bookmarking this for later. :-)
I'll put up the others I have as well when I can. Perhaps put them all together in a folder for those times when you're in the mood. See you soon buddy!
For anyone who's reading this, what was some of Dvorak's influences in America?
ghostrunnindeaththrowshadows
Somewhat outdated...for instance Dvorak's house in NYC is no more...
I wish anglophone people didn't completely butcher slavic names.
Antonín /Antonyieen/, not Antonine - Vltava, not La-tava - Dvořák, not Dvozak. etc.
Chill