Word: dvorak
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Golden Spinning Wheel, Symphonic Variations (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz conductor; London, $5.98). Mention the words "tone poem" and the average post-Romantic music buff will think of Franz (Mazeppa) Liszt or Richard (Don Juan) Strauss, but rarely of Dvorak. A pity, since Dvorak, too, was a master of the genre. His subjects varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled his 26-minute score with bold...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Colin Davis conducts Stephen Bishop in works by Dvorak, Stravinsky, and Tippett, Symphony Hall...
...months before he wrote it. The cut, which he says is his "rock-and-roll statement," frequently changes rhythm and key. "I Am," along with the other two cuts which Federer helped compose, have a Slavic feeling, which one of the band's musicians described as being similar to Dvorak...