cover image Dvorak in America: In Search of the New World

Dvorak in America: In Search of the New World

Joseph Horowitz. Cricket Books, $17.95 (158pp) ISBN 978-0-8126-2681-0

Dvorak in America: In Search of the New World by Joseph Horowitz recounts the composer's 1890s sojourn in the United States, along with 30 period photographs, and his exposure to the music-most notably Native American songs and African-American spirituals-that influenced his famous New World symphony.