The American influence of Antonin Dvorák as a champion of national styles was replicated in New Zealand, where the European-trained composer Alfred Hill drew on Maori melodies in the same ways as Americans by turns tried to fit African-American, Native American, and Anglo-American folk tunes into the frameworks ready-made by the Czech composer's popular works. It's terrific that the Naxos label has been giving various national schools a new hearing, for it is in this way that insidious and invidious notions of a single arc ...
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The American influence of Antonin Dvorák as a champion of national styles was replicated in New Zealand, where the European-trained composer Alfred Hill drew on Maori melodies in the same ways as Americans by turns tried to fit African-American, Native American, and Anglo-American folk tunes into the frameworks ready-made by the Czech composer's popular works. It's terrific that the Naxos label has been giving various national schools a new hearing, for it is in this way that insidious and invidious notions of a single arc of "progress:" will finally be put to rest. In this instance the listener will get to know a composer who is not an unsung genius but who did have the talent to apprehend Dvorák's lessons on more than one level. The opening String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major, "Maori," is an early work by Hill, composed in several stages ending in the late 1890s. Maori thematic elements -- apparently, unlike Dvorák's, actual preexisting tunes -- are precisely incorporated according to the patterns...
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