You know how actors say, “What I really want to do is direct”? Well, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak was renowned for his symphonies, concertos and chamber music, but what he really wanted to do was… ...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could... How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American ...

Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony" is an anthem to American roots. It was written by a foreigner and required white classical musicians to respect Black spirituals and Native American music.

Shortly after Antonin Dvorak arrived in the United States in 1892 — for a historic visit that resulted in the creation of his ‘‘New World’’ Symphony — he made a cursory remark to a Boston newspaper ...

“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for a great crescendo, attaining her strength and stature once more in a mighty ff ...

"Rusalka" at last is getting the respect she deserves - and it only took a century or so. The finest of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's 10 operas, the "lyric fairy tale" - as he and librettist ...

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Rusalka may not be a household name where opera titles are concerned, but the main source for its plot, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, certainly is. Antonín Dvorák’s luxuriant setting ...

As a classical music buff, I knew that Czech composer Antonin Dvorak had written some memorable music during a brief stay in tiny Spillville, Iowa, in the late 1800s. But that's all I knew about ...

Over three nights, the Czech Philharmonic presented Dvorak’s concertos and more, including a rare performance of Janacek’s “Glagolitic Mass.” By Joshua Barone Harry T. Burleigh, who transformed Black ...