Movements
- I. Father of the Waters - depicts the birth of the Mississippi River in the streams of Minnesota and the lands of the Chippewa Indians .
- II. Huckleberry Finn - based on the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain . A short piece ruminating on Huck's prankish nature.
- III. Old Creole Days - Grofe's interpretation of spirituals sung by slaves on the plantations
- IV. Mardi Gras - depicts Fat Tuesday in New Orleans.
The entire piece runs about 17 minutes.
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“His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Van gripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity, and moved to and fro, veering and sidestepping, opening his mouth the wrong way, and blinking in the odd bilboquet fashion peculiar to eyelids in his abnormal position. Even more extraordinary than the variety and velocity of the movements he made in imitation of animal hind legs was the effortlessness of his stance.”
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