{"product_id":"dvork-and-his-world-the-bard-music-festival-9780691000978","title":"Dvork and His World (The Bard Music Festival)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntonin Dvork made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago  but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time  he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorks career and music  this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal.  The essays  which make up the first part of the book  begin with Leon Botsteins inquiry into the reception of Dvorks work in German-speaking Europe  in England  and in America. Commenting on the relationship between Dvork and Brahms  David Beveridge offers the first detailed portrait of perhaps the most interesting artistic friendship of the era. Joseph Horowitz explores the context in which the \"New World\" Symphony was premiered a century ago  offering an absorbing account of New York musical life at that time. In discussing Dvork as a composer of operas  Jan Smaczny provides an unexpected slant on the widely held view of him as a \"nationalist\" composer. Michael Beckerman further investigates this view of Dvork by raising the question of the role nationalism played in music of the nineteenth century.  The second part of this volume presents Dvorks correspondence and reminiscences as well as unpublished reviews and criticism from the Czech press. It includes a series of documents from the composers American years  a translation of the review of Rusalkas premiere with the photographs that accompanied the article  and Janceks analyses of the symphonic poems. Many of these documents are published in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646673510453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691000972","price":26.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691000978.jpg?v=1781677074","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dvork-and-his-world-the-bard-music-festival-9780691000978","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}