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 ...

American classical music turned away from Black music and other folk traditions to its lasting detriment, according to this knotty cultural history from music critic and historian Horowitz (Artists in ...

Mozart wrote many of his serenades with wind instruments because they were more easily heard outside. Dvorak follows suit with his own Serenade for Winds. Tune in at 9 am on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our ...

Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...

In his 1918 arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” for solo voice and piano, Harry T. Burleigh captures a timeless cry of desolation. It begins with a repetitive pattern in the ...

"Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music: Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony" (EuroArts DVD) THREE AND A HALF STARS This DVD features a half-hour film tracing the context and content of Dvorak's ...

One of the most popular pieces of classical music is the Largo – the second movement – of Antonín Dvorák's Ninth Symphony. It's the one subtitled 'From the New World', but he could just as easily have ...

The “Enigma” Variations was written as a set of musical character sketches of Edward Elgar’s friends, with the first variation cast as a tender tribute to his wife and the finale as a rousing ...