Part 3 - the 20th Century

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Images_small Looks at how, through the 20th Century, America took its place as force in the world of classical music; not so much through its experimental work but through the music of Hollywood movies. It also looks at where Classical music is alive today at amusement parks and videogames. Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition music commentator and dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina takes us on a tour of classical music in early America.

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Looks at how, through the 20th Century, America took its place as force in the world of classical music; not so much through its experimental work but through the music of Hollywood movies. It also looks at where Classical music is alive today at amusement parks and videogames. Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition music commentator and dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina takes us on a tour of classical music in early America.

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The 20th Century was when the United States took its place as a world leader. The US came out of World War One and World War Two the winner ? without anyone ever touching our homeland. And by the 1940s, America was a Superpower, with a military and an economy unmatched in the world. At the beginning of the century though, we were nothing at all like that.

MUSIC ? Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto Berliner Philharmoniker & Ferenc Fricsay Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World"

Europe was still the top-of-the-heap, especially when it came to music and art. And, right before the century started, one of Europe?s cultural Big Guns came over here to show American?s how things ought to be done.

MUSIC ? Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto Berliner Philharmoniker & Ferenc Fricsay...
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IN: (music) "This is American Classics..."
OQ: "...for the Performing Arts." (music sting)

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto	Berliner Philharmoniker & Ferenc Fricsay	Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World".	Alex	1993	00:00
Eve and Adam	The McIntosh County Shouters	Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia.	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings	1984	00:00
Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat -"Symphony of a Thousand": II. "Imple Superna Gratia"	Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Heather Harper, Helen Watts, John Shirley-Quirk, Lucia Popp, Martti Talvela, Ren? Kollo, Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Singverein & Yvonne Minton	Mahler: The Complete Symphonies.	Deutsche Grammophon		00:00
Octet for Wind Instruments - rev. version 1952 - 1. Sinfonia (Lento - Allegro moderato)	Boston Symphony Chamber Players	Johann Strauss: Walzer.	Deutsche Grammophon		00:00
Cavernism	Earl Hines	Black Legends of Jazz (Box Set).	Verve	1994	00:00
Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American": I. Moderato Assai	Detroit Symphony Orchestra & Neeme J?rvi	American Series, Vol. 3: Still: Symphony No. 1 - Ellington: The River Suite.	Chandos	1993	00:00
Rodeo: IV. Hoe-Down	Antal Dorati & Detroit Symphony Orchestra	Copland: Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare, Rodeo, Etc..	Philips		00:00
Appalachian Spring Suite: II. Allegro	Antal Dorati & Detroit Symphony Orchestra	The Ultimate Copland Album.	Decca		00:00
Reflections on the Nature of Water (1986): VI. Relentless	The Group for Contemporary Music	Jacob Druckman: String Quartets No. 2 & 3 - Reflections on the Nature of Water - Dark Wind.	Koch Int'l Classics		00:00
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-48): No. 11. Third Interlude	Herbert Henck	John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes - Henk: Festeburger Fantasien.	ECM Records		00:00
Captain Blood Suite	Orchestrated by Hugo Friedhofer, Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra	Korngold: Suites from Film Scores.	Deutsche Grammophon		00:00
The Sea Hawk. Suite	Orchestrated by Hugo Friedhofer, Ray Heindorf, Milan Roder - Score reconstructed and assembled by Patrick Russ		Deutsche Grammophon;	2002	00:00
La Gioconda / Act 3 - Dance of the Hours	Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra	My Ballerina Album.	Deutsche Grammophon		00:00
Main Title Theme (From Alien)	Hollywood Symphony Orchestra	Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Selected Hits (Vol. 1, Original).	Charly Records	2006	00:00
Daffling Tower	Not known	from the video game "Everquest".			00:00
Space Mountain	Michael Giacchino	From the Disney Theme Park Ride "Space Mountain".	Disney		00:00