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 ...

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Bits of information about famous people were as popular in the 1890s as they are now. An item about Antonin Dvorak appeared in papers nationwide — including The Gazette — in the summer of 1893 that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Leos Svarovsky leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in music by a Czech composer you may not be familiar with. We hear "Souvenirs," by Jan Cikker (CHEE-ker), along with an encore by a composer you ...

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak came to the US to be Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City for three years in the 1890s. During the summer of 1893 he chose to vacation in ...

I spend a significant amount of time walking and going to the gym each week. Besides staving off the days of my dotage, it gives me a chance to listen to a lot of music. I’m not sure where the thought ...