Word: dvoraked
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...combined clubs will also present an a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman, which was awarded the World's Fair prize for choral composition in 1938. Also included are four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Belle Helene", folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delaney, and three Bach chorales...
...Dvorak was the first symphonic composer to use U.S. Negro and Indian themes, which he usually Dvoraked into something pretty Czech. Still living is the man who gave him such tunes as Swing Low Sweet Chariot (used in the New World Symphony): Harry T. Burleigh, dapper, 75-year-old choir singer at Manhattan's St. George's Episcopal Church...
...Bohemia, orchestras are no longer allowed to play Dvorak's bouncing Slavonic Dances, his mournful Dumky (elegies), his evocations of Bohemia's folklore. For Dvorak's nationalist music speaks patriotically plain to Czech hearts...
...Although Dvorak accepted honors from Emperor Franz Josef (he was the first musician to sit in the window-dressy Austrian House of Lords), he kept his Czechishness. A family man whose only hobby seems to have been looking at ships and locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...
...Composer Dvorak repaid the U.S. for what he took. To the tune of the most popular of the many Humoresques he wrote, many a U.S. convivium sings: Passengers will please refrain from flushing toilets while the train is standing in the station, I love...