Preston Ware Orem - American Indian Rhapsody (Basquin)

Preston Ware Orem - American Indian Rhapsody (1918)
Pf : Peter Basquin (1998.01.01)
• American Indian Rhapsody

[@danielwilkins7509]

Bach? Chopin? I need to learn more, about Classical Music. This would be good music, to have lunch, with a famous Hollywood director, with! Keep up the good work!

[@shutupzewenstopwatchingloli]

Great piece I can hear some influences from Arthur Farwell too

[@syroyid]

Very bold opening

[@SCRIABINIST]

Nice but not particularly special themes, the writing also resembles Debussy

[@Timesgames]

is this a movie music?

[@Timesgames]

sounds like really 20th century

[@nurrasyid14_]

@@Timesgames no, and yes it's composed in 1918

[@DavidMannMD]

MacDowellesque.

[@andrewc9643]

Interesting?

[@DavidArdittiComposer]

Hmm… sounds like American Indian themes as Liszt might have arranged them, except that Liszt would have given it a more satisfactory structure. This seems to go nowhere.

[@Rc-yb2pc]

How so?

[@DavidArdittiComposer]

@@Rc-yb2pc I didn't get much sense of conclusion or recapitulation from this piece, it came across as a string of motives in a virtuoso piano idiom. On second listening, I liked it better.

[@robertwalker2052]

Preston Nowhere Orem.

[@marinalvamariadeoliveira4630]

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[@uhhbonk]

Agreed, Indianische Fantasie by Busoni is a better example of a composer using Native American themes within the western idiom

[@beecolor]

Empty work...