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 ...
Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of ...
Dvorak's friends at the National Club of Prague were tired of dancing to the same music over and over, so he wrote his Prague Waltzes for them. We'll dance along during our music this evening ...
You don’t have to travel to Austria or Italy to visit the home of a world-famous classical music composer. Just a short drive from Rochester rests a small town that one master called home for a summer ...
Jos van Immerseel's last period-instrument excursion took in Orff's Carmina Burana, so this latest release is a chronological back step. Though Janáček's insane Sinfonietta, written in 1926, still ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - British disc jockey Paul Oakenfold, known for high-energy sets in sweaty nightclubs, will follow a different beat this summer in his first-ever performance with a full orchestra in ...
Moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship “Horowitz has taught me to listen to ...