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Oddly, when RCA\nreissued the album on LP on their Bluebird label in the 1950s, the Scherzo\nwas omitted, even though the entire work could have easily fit on one side.\nIt receives its first reissue here.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nSevitzky’s commitment to the music of his adopted land was second to none\namong prominent conductors in the USA at the time, and he tried to include\na composition by an American composer in each of his concerts. His Victor\ndiscography lists works by Roy Harris, Harl McDonald, Leo Sowerby, David\nVan Vactor and Robert L. Sanders which remain unreleased. All of his issued\nrecordings of works by American composers are included in the present\nprogram.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nArcady Dubensky (1890 – 1966) was a Russian-born American composer,\narranger and violinist, who played in the New York Symphony and New York\nPhilharmonic from 1922 to 1953. During that time, he was a prolific\ncomposer whose works were recorded by Leopold Stokowski as well as\nSevitzky. His \u003cem\u003eFugue for 18 Violins\u003c\/em\u003e was played in Philadelphia\nduring Sevitzky’s tenure as leader of that city’s Chamber String\nSimfonietta, and his \u003cem\u003eStephen Foster\u003c\/em\u003e was premièred by Sevitzky in\n1941. The theme is taken from “Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)”, which in\nthe finale is joined by “Oh, Susanna” and “Beautiful Dreamer”. Like\nDohnanyi’s \u003cem\u003eVariations on a Nursery Tune\u003c\/em\u003e, some of the variations\nare done in the style of other composers (Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, et\nal.)\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOtto Cesana (1899 – 1980) was a composer, conductor, jazz musician and\narranger who emigrated from Italy to the United States as a child, and was\nlater to lead a series of “easy listening” LPs in the 1950s. The\nunfortunate title of his tone poem has guaranteed that it will never be\nrevived, which is a pity, given that the work itself is tuneful and\nexuberant. Cesana wrote that his intent in the work was to illustrate the\nchanging moods of the African-American man, “now gay, now sad, always\nhowever migrating toward carefreeness and abandon.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nGeorge Gershwin had arranged his own suite from his opera, \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e, but it was little-performed when conductor Fritz\nReiner commissioned American arranger Robert Russell Bennett to produce the\n“symphonic picture” heard here. Reiner chose the excerpts, suggested their\norder and even some of the key transpositions. Although Alfred Wallenstein\nrecorded a cut version in 1944, Sevitzky became the first conductor to\nrecord it complete, beating Reiner’s Pittsburgh set by seven weeks.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nLike Sevitzky’s substitution of the snare drum for the tambourine in the\nlast movement of Tchaikovsky’s \u003cem\u003eManfred\u003c\/em\u003e Symphony (on Pristine PASC 479), there is another odd-sounding replacement here, as a bassoon “sings”\nPorgy’s part in “I got plenty o’ nuttin”, rather than the customary banjo.\n(Where was the banjoist from the Dubensky \u003cem\u003eStephen Foster\u003c\/em\u003e finale?)\nNonetheless, Sevitzky gives a highly idiomatic performance, as he did with\nthe other American music presented here.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eGLAZUNOV: From the Middle Ages – Suite, Op. 79\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n1. 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