born Oct. 11, 1882 Robert Nathaniel Dett "Juba Dance" (Leon Bates) скачать в хорошем качестве

born Oct. 11, 1882 Robert Nathaniel Dett "Juba Dance" (Leon Bates)

Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While born in Canada, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music. He was among the first Black composers during the early years of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). His works often appeared among the programs of Will Marion Cook's New York Syncopated Orchestra. Dett performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director. Dett was born in Drummondville, Ontario (now part of Niagara Falls, Ontario), where he studied piano at an early age, showing initial interest when he was three years old and starting piano lessons at the age of five. He was the son of Charlotte Washington Dett and Robert T. Dett; his mother was a native of Drummondville and his father was from the United States. As a child, his mother encouraged him to memorize passages of Shakespeare, Longfellow and Tennyson. In 1893, the family moved to Niagara Falls, New York. At about age 14, he played piano for his local church. He studied at the Oliver Willis Halstead Conservatory of Music from 1901 to 1903. He continued his piano studies at the Lockport Conservatory, matriculating to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It was at Oberlin when he was first introduced to the idea of using spirituals in classical music; he heard the music of Antonín Dvořák which reminded him of the spirituals he had learned from his grandmother. He was the first black student to complete the five-year course at Oberlin. He then toured as a concert pianist and during this period wrote only rudimentary piano compositions. He then came under the influence of Emma Azalia Hackley, a soprano singer, who inspired his interest in black American folk music. Throughout his lifetime, Dett continued to study music. Each summer, he attended major national institutions. From 1920 to 1921, he attended Harvard University, where he studied with Arthur Foote, winning two prizes. Don't Be Weary Traveler, a choral composition, won the Francis Boott Award while his essay "The Emancipation of Negro Music" won the Bowdoin Prize. His interest in composition continued to reflect the demands of teaching. Percy Grainger recorded the "Juba" from In the Bottoms during this period at Harvard. He composed collections of spirituals, which he had arranged, including Religious Folksongs of the Negro (1927) and The Dett Collections of Negro Spirituals (1936). Dett received a Holstein prize for his contributions as a composer. From 1924 to 1926, Dett served as the president of The National Association of Negro Musicians. Founded in Chicago in 1919, the association is the United States' oldest organization dedicated to the preservation, encouragement, and advocacy of all genres of African American music. In 1929, he traveled to France to study at the Fontainebleau school of music with composer Nadia Boulanger and then earned a Masters of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1932. Late in his career, his style shifted from that of his earlier neo-romantic works as he adopted more contemporary idioms. In this later period he wrote piano suites such as American Ordering of Moses (1937), Tropic Winter (1938), and Eight Bible Vignettes (1941–1943) — his final piano suite. In the 2000s, Dett is remembered most for his work in combining the music in the style of the European Romantic composers with African-American spirituals. His music is still performed in the 2000s. Canada's Nathaniel Dett Chorale, founded in 1998, bears his name and performs his music as well as that of other composers of African descent. The chorale is one of many that has recorded his music. In 2014, his oratorio "The Ordering of Moses" was revived by the Cincinnati May Festival, and performed the same week in Music Hall in Cincinnati and at Carnegie Hall in New York. The incident from the world premiere in 1937, where the live broadcast was cut off by the NBC network during the performance, was re-created, using actual tapes of the announcer. There is no documentary evidence of the reason for the interruption of the broadcast, although it is considered likely to have occurred because of complaints received by the network from those objecting to the playing of music composed by an African-American. In 1934 Dett, and/or his publisher, registered strong objections to saxophonist Frank Trumbauer's swing band adaptation of Juba Dance, from the suite In the Bottoms. Brunswick Records was compelled to withdraw the recording (#6763) from release. Wikipedia performed by: Leon Bates