George Frederick McKay: Epoch - An American Dance Symphony
Epoch - An American Dance Symphony
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Künstler: University of Kentucky Women's Choir, University of Kentucky SO, John Nardolillo
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 8364271
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.11.2008
- Serie: Naxos American Classics
George Frederick McKay composed Epoch, which has lain forgotten for virtually seventy years, as 'An American Dance Symphony'. This new art form was to express in colourful music, costumes and dance scenes, utilizing the latest techniques in lighting and stagecraft, the spirit of four great American poets: Edgar Allan Poe, Sidney Lanier, Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, as well as the flow of history through romantic, pastoral, pioneering and industrial episodes. Epoch was first performed in 1935 during the Great Depression, with severe social-political turmoil brewing on many fronts, and McKay's music, like the 1927 silent movie Metropolis, warned of a dawning robotic and polluted modern industrial society, in contrast to a peaceful, natural existence. The lyrical Pastoral depicts idyllic nurturing hillsides, streams and bays, while Machine Age Blues expresses a dark prospective future, with explosive, sardonic mechanical fury.
- Tracklisting
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- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Epoch: An American dance symphony
- 1 1. Symbolic portrait
- 2 2. Pastoral
- 3 3. Westward!
- 4 4. Machine age blues
