A visitor to my website sent me this message:
"I apologize if I go against the grain regarding Dvorak's ninth symphony. In which everyone finds influences of the American environment, Negro music, and natives. In my opinion, it is a generalized tendency, just so we are all in agreement. But to me, it seems like a rather erroneous general tendency. An impression confirmed by my listenings of said symphony, in which I sincerely have never found a trace of influences. Because, for one thing, it seems to me that part of the symphony had been composed by him before his trip to America, and above all because, according to what I have read in some in-depth reviews, certainly not written by just any amateur, he himself went on to deny this "label" saying "This was, and remains, Bohemian music". The confirmation? In the "broadness," which exudes from every note the nostalgia for his land. Which Kubelik, also a Bohemian, knew how to interpret like no one else. I apologize, and kind regards."
I would like to know what you think and what I should reply to him.
