Dvorák to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Rediscovers America's Music and Its African-American Roots

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Maurice Peress (Conductor and Professor of Music, Conductor and Professor of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Dvorák to Duke Ellington

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A Conductor Rediscovers America's Music and Its African-American Roots

Maurice Peress (Conductor and Professor of Music, Conductor and Professor of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 February 2004

Music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Educational: Music

Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvorák so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond. In Dvorák to Duke Ellington, Peress begins by recounting the music's formative years: Dvorák's three year residency as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1892-1895), and his students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark, who would in turn become the teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and Copland. We follow Dvorák to the famed Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where he directed a concert of his music for Bohemian Honor Day. Peress brings to light the little known African American presence at the Fair: the piano professors, about-to-be-ragtimers; and the gifted young artists Paul Dunbar, Harry T. Burleigh, and Cook, who gathered at the Haitian Pavilion with its director, Frederick Douglass, to organize their own gala concert for Colored Persons Day. Peress, a distinguished conductor, is himself a part of this story; working with Duke Ellington on the Suite from Black, Brown and Beige and his ""opera comique,"" Queenie Pie; conducting the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass; and reconstructing landmark American concerts at which George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, James Reese Europe's Clef Club (the first all-black concert at Carnegie Hall), and Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, were first presented. Concluding with an astounding look at Ellington and his music, Dvorák to Duke Ellington offers an engrossing, elegant portrait of the Dvorák legacy, America's music, and the inestimable African-American influence upon it.

By: Maurice Peress (Conductor and Professor of Music Conductor and Professor of Music Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 259mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780195098228
ISBN 10: 0195098226
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 February 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maurice Peress is a Professor of Music, Aaron Copland School of Music, City University of New York, and the Graduate School of the City of New York.

Reviews for Dvorák to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Rediscovers America's Music and Its African-American Roots

<br> Peress has in-depth and first-hand knowledge of the subject as he worked with Ellington, edited and'or orchestrated five of Ellington's symphonic works, and has presented a number of critically acclaimed historically accurate concert recreations...With an unparalleled background in music and research, Peress is uniquely suited to delve into the topic at hand, and does so with skillful results, ...there is not a graduate composition or conducting major who would not benefit from reading this highly personal tome. --JCG<br> For anyone interested in a good look at a poorly understood line of American musical history, or for anyone interested in a simple, fascinating story of music and genius, Peress's Dvorak to Duke Ellington is a captivating read. --International Musician<br> What makes Dvorak to Duke Ellington so compelling is that it is written by an accomplished conductor who collaborated with Ellington late in his life on the orchestration and/or creation of some of his major