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Composer:
George Frederick McKay

Artist(s):
University of Kentucky Women's Choir

Conductor:
John Nardolillo

Background: George Frederick McKay composed Epoch, which has lain forgotten for virtually seventy years, as ‘An American Dance Symphony’. This new art form was to express in colourful music, costumes and dance scenes, utilizing the latest techniques in lighting and stagecraft, the spirit of four great American poets, as well as the flow of history through romantic, pastoral, pioneering and industrial episodes.

Epoch was first performed in 1935 during the Great Depression, with severe social-political turmoil brewing on many fronts, and McKay’s music, like the 1927 silent movie Metropolis, warned of a dawning robotic and polluted modern industrial society, in contrast to a peaceful, natural existence.

The lyrical Pastoral depicts idyllic nurturing hillsides, streams and bays, while Machine Age Blues expresses a dark prospective future, with explosive, sardonic mechanical fury.

CATALOGUE NR: 8559330
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Sep-2008

COMPOSER: George Frederick McKay
TITLE: Epoch
TRACKS: An American Dance Symphony : Symbolic Portrait / Pastoral / Westward! / Machine Age Blues.
ORCHESTRA: University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Nardolillo
ARTISTS: University of Kentucky Women's Choir      

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