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158 pp.
| Cricket/Marcato
| April, 2003
|
TradeISBN 0-8126-2681-8$$17.95
(4)
YA
Dvorák spent several years as head of New York's National Conservatory of Music in the 1890s immersed in America's musical scene. African- American baritone Harry Burleigh; a summer in Spillville, Iowa; and Longfellow's Hiawatha influenced his New World Symphony. Blandly written, this biographical work was created in tandem with Robert Winter and Peter Bogdanoff's DVD From the New World: A Celebrated Composer in America and is illustrated with vintage black-and-white photos. Ind.
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Elizabeth Rosen.
This fictionalized elaboration of how Dvorák was inspired by the song of a scarlet tanager that he heard in Iowa reads fluently, showing how Dvorák's American Quartet reflects that inspiration. Illustrated with color-saturated paintings, the book bravely attempts, without including a musical score, to reproduce the birdsong and to suggest Dvorák's own music.