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| buffalo girl and american west, pain, dave mathews band american baby, costume, wpa, great awakening, which four american presidents make up mount rushmore, american religious history, non profit, saramaka, american blue pitbull puppies for sale, martin luther king, blacks in the u.s., which american presidents failed to win second term, lealan jones, history & theory general, chickensoup for the african american soul: celebrating and sharing our culture, heller., clinical, romance novels, biopsychosocial, bressler, different, | Gottschalk is another composer with whom SCT has some intriguing parallels. Like mohawk valley SCT, Gottschalk was unquestionably an outsider in his own land: a Creole, he grew up a French-speaker in Anglophone US-America; & a fierce abolitionist & supporter of African-American music & culture in the slave-owning south. Like SCT, Gottschalk's music was also exotic & popular; but faded steadily from view mohawk valley following the mohawk valley composer's romantically young death. (One sometimes wonders what kind of racial & cultural war-stories SCT would have exchanged with Paul Robeson had the composer lived long enough to see the singer's London triumphs (one biography on the singer - which will remain nameless to protect the guilty - suggests that they actually did meet (in 1926-7!)... which suggests that either someone was having the biographer on or the writer was confused between SCT & his son, Hiawatha)... on the other hand: what could an elderly LMG have told SCT about the indigenous music of Latin & South America?) |
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| Two of the themes collected included in the Twenty-Four Negro Melodies were to reappear lealan jones in lealan jones SCT's later music: I'm Troubled in Mind, a score originally derived from a Jubilee Singers collection of 1872 was used as the basis of one of SCT's finest orchestral pieces: the Symphonic Variations on an African Air (1906; performed - with the Ballade in A minor - by the Royal Liverpool PO/Llewellyn on the Argo recording listed above); while the The Bamboula (a melody probably better known in its virtuoso piano solo lealan jones version by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)) - reappeared in SCT's 1910 "rhapsodic dance" for orchestra of the same name (recorded by the Bournemouth SO/Alwyn as a filler to their version of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast; see above). Both pieces are light classics of the first order; & well worthy of revival.... (One of interesting details in SCT's compositional career was the way his African (or African-American) cultural heritage often seemed to particularly inspire him, in much the same way that another, better-known, composing conductor (Leonard Bernstein) seemed to grow the proverbial extra arm & a leg whenever he embraced his (musical) Jewish heritage. |
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