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Thomson - The Plow That Broke The Plains, The River | Naxos - DVD 2110521

Thomson - The Plow That Broke The Plains, The River

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Label: Naxos - DVD

Cat No: 2110521

Barcode: 0747313552153

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Soundtrack

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

Contents

Artists

Floyd King (narrator)
Post-Classical Ensemble

Conductor

Angel Gil-Ordóñez

Artists

Floyd King (narrator)
Post-Classical Ensemble

Conductor

Angel Gil-Ordóñez

About

Pare Lorentz’s The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937) are landmark American documentary films. Aesthetically, they break new ground in seamlessly marrying pictorial imagery, symphonic music, and poetic free verse, all realised with supreme artistry. Ideologically, they indelibly encapsulate the strivings of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’.
 
Virgil Thomson’s scores for both films are among the most famous ever composed for the movies. Aaron Copland praised the music for The Plow for its “frankness and openness of feeling”, calling it “fresher, more simple, and more personal” than the Hollywood norm. He called the music for The River “a lesson in how to treat Americana”.
 
Virgil Thomson is a stalwart of the traditional school of American music, and wrote the soundtracks for many documentaries.  This uses the re-recorded original soundtrack to the film, and includes some tracks which were omitted from the documentaries on their original transmission.
 
Joseph Horowitz (artistic director), Pare Lorentz (director)
 
Total Running Time 112:20
NTSC: No Region Coding
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: DTS/ Dolby Digital
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