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Dvořák In Iowa (2020)
- matthewpick 4y agoI went to the same school as the author. Never thought I’d run into someone I knew from Iowa on HN! Enjoyed the historical read.
- throwaway894345 4y agoFellow Iowan here. I’ve had similar experiences when Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) has been featured. Also one of my old professors’ blog hit the front page once.
- Bud 4y agoFormer Iowan here, lived in Iowa City for 20 years.
- ZitchDog 4y agoIowa City here. There are a few of us around!
- DoctorOW 4y agoI just moved to Des Moines for work about a year ago.
- kraag22 4y agoI didn’t know that Dvořák is famous outside Czechia and even outside Europe.
- jethkl 4y agoWell, he is! His cello concerto is standard repertoire across the world, and his New World Symphony is standard in the US. He should also be known for originating the ET theme [1,2], but that's not how things work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDPkMvUAgqo&t=1955s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDPkMvUAgqo&t=1955s [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-qrMz-JAzo&list=RD2-qrMz-JAzo&t=12s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-qrMz-JAzo&list=RD2-qrMz-JA...
- sylware 4y agoahem... I have been writing with a dvorak keyboard for more than a decade. The move from qwerty to dvorak took me 4 months of PAIN. You must have a strong will to keep going, because the interference of real life will generate a strong drag to qwerty. And I got a few ortholinear keyboards with that (next is columnar/ortholinear DYO mechanical keyboard with RISC-V 64 bits firmware... ok ok ok, that's all theory, I may end-up with a staggered qwerty if I am too busy doing something else and I do run out of keyboards).
- optimalsolver 4y agoThe article is about the 19th Century composer.
- sophacles 4y agoWrong dvorak - I suggest reading the article.
- elliottkember 4y agoThe composer, Antonín, and the man who invented the keyboard, August, were supposedly distant cousins!
- JasonFruit 4y agoPlaying Dvorak's American Quartet was one of the best musical experiences of my life, and I'm grateful to the natural environment around Spillville, if it could enable Dvorak to produce such a work. There's nothing American about the music, by the way; it's just as satisfyingly Bohemian as the rest of Dvorak's music, even if he was self-consciously using a pentatonic scale, and may have tried to sound American. I think he was so perfectly steeped in his own culture and his own sound that anything he wrote came out sounding like him and his place. (And by the way, best viola melody ever.)
- bjornlouser 4y ago'Dvorak in America' articles never mention how Gottschalk was hard at work integrating African American folk music several decades earlier. There wasn't much appetite in the U.S. at the time but it was wildly popular in Europe... Le Bananier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfuv2GzNF-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfuv2GzNF-8
- jan_Inkepa 4y agoGottachalk is a hoot to play also. One of the best concerts I went to involved an impenetrable and lengthy Avant Garde work by which time it was over I, in spite of my general openness, wanted to leave, but the next piece was a Gottschalk piece with lots of well-known American melodies which was wonderfully comprehensible in comparison. In other circumstances I might have dismissed it but in this particular context it was like water to someone dying of dehydration.
- prvc 4y agoWhy should they mention this?
- bjornlouser 4y agoFrom the article: "In traveling to America, Dvořák was on a mission to create an “American music,” to find and elevate the country’s folk tradition, even the sound of its daily life. What immediately captured his imagination was African American music, slave songs, and spirituals." Perhaps they should mention Gottschalk simply to explain that no-one was actually confused about how to elevate the folk tradition in America...
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