Dvořák in America
Subtitle: in search of the New World
By: Joseph Horowitz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cricket Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780812626810; 9780812626926
Subjects: Composers; Music; Description and travel; Travel; History and criticism; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: An account of Antonin Dvorak's 1890s stay in America, where he took the essences of Indian drums, slave spirituals, and other musical forms and created from them a distinctly new music.
Notes: "A Marcato book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: Young Harry Burleigh; title: New York greets Dvořák; title: Dvořák gets his bearings; title: Buffalo Bill and Hiawatha; title: Dvořák and the "yellow" press; title: Spillville; title: The New World Symphony; title: A tale of two cities; title: Postlude: Old Harry Burleigh.