Seattle-based George Frederick McKay is one of many American composers whose works have been revived by the indefatigable Naxos label, and there are points of interest in nearly all of them. The grandiosely titled Epoch: An American Dance Symphony, composed in 1935, originally involved dancers, lighting, and stagecraft. Those elements might enhance the piece, and indeed this example of American Gesamtkunstwerk would be worth attempting in that way. It's an ambitious piece, but it is performed here by a university ...
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Seattle-based George Frederick McKay is one of many American composers whose works have been revived by the indefatigable Naxos label, and there are points of interest in nearly all of them. The grandiosely titled Epoch: An American Dance Symphony, composed in 1935, originally involved dancers, lighting, and stagecraft. Those elements might enhance the piece, and indeed this example of American Gesamtkunstwerk would be worth attempting in that way. It's an ambitious piece, but it is performed here by a university orchestra and chorus, and the whole shebang would seem to be within reach of a good university music and theater program. One can understand why Epoch has been forgotten as a piece of absolute music: there just seems to be too much packed into it. The subtitle "An American Dance Symphony" is only intermittently applicable to the music. The four movements -- "Symbolic Portrait," "Pastoral," "Westward!," and "Machine Age Blues" -- seem to indicate historical themes, but then the listener...
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