Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony" is an anthem to American roots. It was written by a foreigner and required white classical musicians to... Dvorak's beloved 'New World' symphony was an anthem to ...

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On Tuesday evening, the quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music gave their semesterly performance in Morse Recital Hall as part of the Oneppo Chamber Music series. The Brentano String Quartet ...

The New World Symphony No. 9 in E Minor premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City Dec. 16, 1893, 129 years ago. What does this have to do with Iowa, 1,200 miles away? Everything. Antonin Dvorak ...

Last week we had Antonin Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein and the San Diego Symphony. I was looking forward to more Dvorak this season. His Symphony No. 9 was originally on the schedule ...

We round out this week's Piano Puzzler not with some piano music, but with some string quartet music by the composer Bruce had in mind this week. To emphasize Antonin Dvorak's connection with America ...

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 ...

Dvorak didn’t just write Czech music, he wrote music of the people, whoever the people were. Similarly, Still wrote a whole bunch of these sets of Folk Song Suites, for various combinations of ...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out what's great about a culture. That's exactly what Czech composer Antonin Dvorak was when he came to the U.S. At the end of the 19th century. He was an ...

This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. Sometimes it takes an ...