Leta Miller, !
“Ernest Bloch at the San Francisco Conservatory, 1924-1930”!
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American Musicological Society national meeting!
San Francisco !
Nov. 10, 2011!
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This handout contains only 9 of the 40 slides shown during the presentation!
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Slide 24:!
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Bloch, !
Four Episodes (1926)!
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Mvt 4 “Chinese”!
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mm. 1–5 and 18–20!
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Recording:!
Dalia Atlas conducts!
members of the Israel!
Philharmonic Orchestra!
Slide 25!
Four Episodes, mvt 4: !
Bloch’s “pseudo-Chinese melody”!
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Bloch’s memory of a tune from the theater Slide 26!
Four Episodes, mvt 4!
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The “shrill menacing” theme evoking the suona!
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The crawling dragon theme Slide 28 Bloch, America, mvt 3!
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mm. 159–62!
“the inevitable collapse”!
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Recording:!
Slovak Radio Symphony!
Dalia Atlas, conductor!
Slide 29 Bloch, America, mvt 3!
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English horn solo !
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Whitman quote from!
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun”” !
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Slide 30 America, mvt 3: Concluding anthem!
Slide 35 “V’hakohanim” chant for the
Avodah service !
on Yom Kippur, !
as given in !
The Jewish Encyclopedia Recording: !
Yehudi Menuhin, violin; !
Henrik Endt, piano!
Slide 36 Bloch, Avodat ha-kodesh (1933)!
Part 3, beginning!
“Yih’yu l’ratzon”!
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Recording:!
Zemel Choir, !
Anthony Saunders, director!
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London Symphony) Slide 37