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Horowitz, Joseph

Dvorák in America: In Search of the New World

158 pp. | Cricket/Marcato | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8126-2681-8 $$17.95
(4) YA Dvorák spent several years as head of New York's National Conservatory of Music in the 1890s immersed in America's musical scene. African- American baritone Harry Burleigh; a summer in Spillville, Iowa; and Longfellow's Hiawatha influenced his New World Symphony. Blandly written, this biographical work was created in tandem with Robert Winter and Peter Bogdanoff's DVD From the New World: A Celebrated Composer in America and is illustrated with vintage black-and-white photos. Ind.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

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