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An NCPA Presentation

Dvořák: New World Symphony

The second talk of the series by Dr. Cavas Bilimoria this month will focus on Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony. In 1892, having secured leave from the Prague Conservatoire, Dvořák went to America as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, a forerunner of what is today the Juilliard School. The name ‘From the New World’ which the composer himself gave his symphony clearly points to the basic idea of this work. The contact with the folk music of another land, namely the African American Spirituals and the folk music of the Native Americans had a stimulating effect on Dvořák’s imagination. As he himself said that in these African American melodies, he discovered “all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.”

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