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Author Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-

Title Dvořák in America : in search of the New World / Joseph Horowitz.

Publication Info. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 780.92 Horowi Dvo 2003    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
age Children
Note "A Marcato book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prelude: Young Harry Burleigh -- New York greets Dvořák -- Dvořák gets his bearings -- Buffalo Bill and Hiawatha -- Dvořák and the "yellow" press -- Spillville -- The New World Symphony -- A tale of two cities -- Postlude: Old Harry Burleigh.
Summary 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.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 -- Travel -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904.
Travel.
United States.
United States -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.
Composers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Composers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
ISBN 0812626818 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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0812626923 (paper : alkaline paper)
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