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A brief look at Antonin Dvorak's first summer in America, when he vacationed at the Czech colony in Spillville, Iowa.

Czech composer Anton Dvorak spent several years in New York City in the 1890s, but he was always homesick and longed for the fields and forests of Bohemia.

Women have been composing for centuries but some were more successful than others. History should remember these women and their musical works.

A brief look at the of of Jeannette Thurber, who persuaded Antonin Dvorak to go to New York City and become the Director of the National Conservatory of Music.

A string quartet offers warmth and intimacy and the St. Petersburg String Quartet achieves just that atmosphere in their latest album.

Antonin Dvorák wrote his 9th Symphony in the spirit of America's search for a particular national identity. Though perhaps inaccurate, his symphony remains ever popular.