As a protégé of Brahms, Antonin Dvorak had a noteworthy resume in Europe when he was tapped to run a new Gilded-Age philanthropic conservatory in New York in 1892.
The conservatory didn’t last long, and neither did the Gilded Age, but what Dvorak heard in the New World — and what he did with what he heard — represented a wholly new direction for American composers, and gave us a couple of timeless masterpieces to boot.
Dvorak in America: we’ll trace his path this Sunday at 6:00 p.m. on WFIT 89.5 FM, streaming at WFIT.org or ask your smart speaker to play WFIT.
