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.