This week, we start out with a rousing round of Back to the Future AKA Retrogradus ad Parnassum and then we move on to our three topics:

TULSA OPERA “DECOMISSIONS” COMPOSER DANIEL ROUMAIN
Guardian article
Operawire (includes full aria text)
Daniel Roumain’s tweet

MOVIE CLUB: “LE CONCERT”
Watch the film on YouTube!

DOUGLAS SHADLE ON DVORAK’S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Antonin Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” (OUP)
Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted (NYT)
Douglas Shadle

CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
The full playlist

Doug
Nkeiru Okoye, Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom: “I am Moses the Liberator”

Kensho
Dvorak, The Golden Spinning Wheel 

Will
Bronislau Kaper, Auntie Mame: Title Sequence

Tiffany
Dvorak, Serenade for Strings

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