Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, right, with his wife, children and friends shortly after arriving in New York in 1892. Dvorak was intrigued by America’s Black and Indigenous music. (Photo by ullstein ...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop says Antonin Dvorak's symphony "From the New World" was one of the first big orchestral works to incorporate indigenous American musical ideas.

Ted Libbey And Fred Child Recommend Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 In 1892, on an invitation from Jeanette Thurber, the wife of a wealthy New York businessman, Antonin Dvorak arrived in the city to head the ...

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 ...

Dvorak incorporated many of the distinctive music styles he heard while he was in this country, including Native American Ceremonial music and spirituals into his New World Symphony. We'll enjoy it ...

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 ...

Conductor James Conlon took the stage of Davies Symphony Hall after intermission on Thursday night like a conjuror with a particularly impressive trick up his sleeve. He wasn't far wrong. The magic ...