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 ...

Seattle Symphony’s first three program offerings in its Masterworks series are a double delight. Each concert presents a young guest virtuoso performing a classic from the orchestral repertoire. And ...

When it comes to symphonies, very few composers have all of their symphonic utterances consistently performed. Of course, Beethoven sits atop the heap even if his First, Second, Fourth, and Eighth ...

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 ...

Thierry Fischer conducts the Utah Symphony. The Symphony is based in Salt Lake City and usually performs at Abravanel Hall. (Utah Symphony) The Utah Symphony performed Antonin Dvorak's famous New ...

Houston Symphony presents Dvorak Violin Concerto & Sibelius 1 live at Jones Hall starting March 3. Renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä interprets music of Finland’s greatest musical export, Jean ...

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 ...

Dvorak’s finest Symphony links Prague, London and Glasgow. There seemed to be no end of inspirational sources for Dvorak as he began this work in late 1884 after a break from symphonic writing for a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by To grasp in full this classic work’s complex legacy would allow us to move beyond it, fostering new paths for artists of color. By Douglas W. Shadle ...

James Gaffigan is a thoroughly genial guide to Dvorák’s Sixth Symphony, one of the composer’s most consistently sunny works. The American conductor finds plenty of bite in the distinctive twists and ...

Dvorak wrote his Sixth Symphony in 1880, at a time when he had come under the sway of Brahms, and the connections between Dvorak's Sixth and Brahms's Second are pretty obvious. Marin Alsop seems to ...