Antonín Dvořák and the Two Sunsets

What You'll Learn

• Learn what a symphony is — a grand musical story told by an entire orchestra, usually in four parts called movements, each with its own mood and character
• Discover how Dvořák wove together the folk music of his homeland Bohemia with the sounds he heard in America — spirituals, train rhythms, and wide open spaces
• Understand what homesickness feels like and how it can inspire beautiful art — Dvořák missed his family so much that his longing poured into his music
• Learn how composers find inspiration in everyday sounds — Dvořák loved trains and you can hear their steady, chugging rhythms running through his symphony
• Explore how music can belong to many places at once — the New World Symphony sounds both Czech and American because it carries pieces of both homes