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How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself

U.S. Navy CPO Graham Jackson, with tears of grief, plays "Goin' Home," from Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's body is carried from Warm Springs, Ga., where he died. Ed Clark/Life Picture Collection/Getty hide caption

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American Anthem

How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.

How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself

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The Innovative Mosaic Of American Symphonies

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Deceptive Cadence

The Innovative Mosaic Of American Symphonies

Conductor JoAnn Falletta, one of the strongest champions of American symphonic music, asks: Does a great American symphony even have to be a symphony?

Hear JoAnn Falletta's Discussion With Robert Siegel

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Converse Rediscovered

NPR's Tom Huizenga reports on Buffalo Philharmonic music director Joann Falletta's rediscovery of American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse. Converse, born on this day in 1871, was best known for his orchestral tone poems written around the turn of the century. Falletta has brought his music back to life on a recent CD called Converse: The Mystic Trumpeter (Naxos 8.559116).

Converse Rediscovered

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Classical Lost And Found: Jack Gallagher's Technicolor Scores

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Deceptive Cadence

Classical Lost And Found: Jack Gallagher's Technicolor Scores

Hear the brilliantly orchestrated works of Jack Gallagher, an American composer whose music should be better known.

Jack Gallagher: "Berceuse" (JoAnn Falletta conducts the London Symphony Orchestra)

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