NEW WORLD SYMPHONY - SECOND MOVEMENT (LARGO)
Created on 15/10/2020Latest update on 21/03/2024
Artist: New York Philharmonic
Author: Antonin Dvorak
Year: 1893
Second movement of his 9th Symphony, op. 95 (New World Symphony), created by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Anton Seidl. Dvorak who as an outsider esteemed the African American and native components at least on equal level as the European input within the American musical scope, was inspired by spirituals for this movement as well, without copying existing melody lines. In 1922 his pupil William Amos Fisher turned this Largo theme into a full blown gospel and funeral favorite, even used for US Presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford).
Covers:
- 1922:
William Amos Fisher [pupil of Dvorak as Goin' Home, spiritual eventually becoming the state song of Iowa]
- 1923:
Reinald Werrenrath [oldest recording as Goin' Home (Victrola)]
- 1937:
- 1941:
Jesse Crawford [as Goin' Home; organ version]
- 1948:
Jan Clayton [idem in film The Snake Pit]
- 1949:
Art Tatum [idem; swing version]
- 1958:
Paul Robeson [idem; at Carnegie Hall]
- 1960:
Odetta [idem]
- 1964:
Albert Ayler [idem]
- 1965:
Stanley Turrentine [idem]
- 1966:
James Last [as Going Home (Adagio from the New World)]
- 1972:
Alice Coltrane [as Goin' Home on Impulse lp Lord Of Lords]
- 1973:
Santana [idem, opening his triple live album Lotus, crediting Alice Coltrane for the arrangement]
- 1977:
Horace Parlan [idem, with Archie Shepp]
- 1992:
Elvin Jones [idem]
- 2000:
Van Morrison-Lonnie Donegan-Chris Barber [idem during The Skiffle Sessions]
- 2016:
Yo-Yo Ma [idem; with The Silk Road Ensemble; vocal: Abigail Washburn]
Truly visionary the way Dvorak pushed the black component central stage when it come to define American music as an entity. More than half a century later, The Rolling Stones on their first US tour refused to perform live unless Howlin' Wolf opened up for them. Howlin' who?
Not to be confused with three other original Goin' Home's (see there).
Related items
Other originals by artist:
Covers from artist:
- 1917
- SYMPHONY N°5 IN C MINOR, OP. 67
- 1923
- GESCHICHTEN AUS DEM WIENERWALD OPUS 325
- 1942
- EARL OF SALISBURY, THE
- 1979
- BUT NOT FOR ME
Some originals by author:
