The viola in my life : an alto rhapsody / by Zaslav, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Disc 1 : The Zaslav Duo : Suite for viola and piano (1919) / Ernest Bloch [1880-1959] (12:30) -- Sonata in A Major for violin and piano (transcribed for viola by Bernard Zaslav) / Cesar Franck [1822-1890] (24:44) -- Sonata Op.120 No.2 / Johannes Brahms [1833-1897] (8:29) -- Sonata No.2 for viola and piano, Op.244 ; La bruxelloise from Quatre Visages / Darius Milhaud [1802-1973] (8:43) -- Set for two (1962) (written for Zaslav Duo) / Charles Whittenberg [1927-1984] (5:10) -- Four songs Op.2 (originally for soprano and piano) / Antonín Dvořák [1841-1904] (4:21) -- Four Romantic Pieces Op.75 (originally for violin and piano) / Antonín Dvořák [1884-1904] (2:22) -- Suite for viola solo (unfinished) / Ernest Bloch [1880-1959] (7:51).…”

Orchestrating the nation : the nineteenth-century American Symphonic Enterprise / by Shadle, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…The launch of the enterprise -- Anthony Philip Heinrich, hapless wanderer -- William Henry Fry, operatic translator -- George Frederick Bristow, American stalwart -- The rivalry of nations -- The end of an era -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Pan-American republican -- John Knowles Paine, universal classicist -- The rivalry of generations -- Ellsworth Phelps, Brooklyn patriot -- The winds of change -- Antonín Dvorák, Bohemian prophet.…”

Dvořák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / by Peress, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige."…”

Dvor̿ák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / by Peress, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvor̿ák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvor̿ák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".…”
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Harry T. Burleigh : from the spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance / by Snyder, Jean E., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Burleigh at the National Conservatory of Music -- 5. Introducing Antonín Dvořák to African American Music -- 6. The Columbian Exposition--The Chicago World's Fair -- 7. …”
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Poor gal : the cultural history of Little Liza Jane / by Gutstein, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Johnson : "Oh, goodbye Liza Jane" -- From the New Orleans levee to the Hampton Institute : "Little Liza Jane" ad infinitum -- Intermission number two : the literary "Liza Jane" of Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Margaret Walker -- You went a-driving with Mister Brown : the Tin Pan Alley publishing bonanza -- Poor gal -- I'se got a gal and you got none : a countess-composer and an actress-aviatrix popularize "Li'l Liza Jane" -- Intermission number three : Effie Lee Newsome's "Charcoal, Leddy, charcoal" and Betty Vincent's "Problems of the heart" -- "Liza Jane" meets the media : film, animation, radio, television -- The Lomaxes -- The constellation that connects Langston Hughes and David Bowie, Antonín Dvořák and Nina Simone -- Portrait of a young enslaved woman standing still in the cathedral silence of the deep woods after a dance -- Appendix 1. …”