Antonin Dvorak was a 19th century composer.He was born in 1841 in Bohemia,now part of the Czech Republic.Dvorak incorporated elements of folk and gypsy music from his native Bohemian and Moravia into the romantic classical music he composed.
In the 20th century a 'bohemian lifestyle' has come to denote a carefree,unconventional,wandering way of living.Locked inside the prisons of our static,regulated world,many of us yearn to 'escape' into a rootless existence free from all responsibilities.An existence which is not chained to immovable pillars of work,financial security,property,family or a marital/live-in relationship.
Freedom!Who is so old and tired that he or she does not secretly yearn for the most beautiful word in the English language.Freedom not in the cliched historical/political sense,but freedom from our inadequate,unsatisfactory lives.Freedom from the concrete monstrosities that our cities have become,freedom from the false,pretentious relationships we suffer at home and at work....
Like a river,like a bird,like the wind,mankind and womankind was born to live in a world without borders or barriers.Nature infused us with gypsy blood. When and where did we barter our gypsy nature for the meagre comforts of living like a domesticated beast?
Antonin Dvorak's music is so beautiful that it can set your blood stirring.Reaching out to the wanderer,adventurer and romantic in us.How we respond to this music will depend on how many fires of our youth are still burning in our breast.
YouTube - Antonn Leopold Dvo?k - Bagatelles Op.47 No.1
