Join the DAHA for a festive open-air concert and walking tour celebrating the 180th anniversary of Antonín Dvořák’s birth on September 8, 1841.

 AT 1:00 PM, WALKING TOUR

Tour the East 17th Street neighborhood where Czech composer Antonín Dvořák resided from 1892-95 while the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. It is here in New York that he composed the world-famous “New World” Symphony, Sonatina for Violin and Piano Op. 100, Biblical Songs, the best known Humoresques, and incomparable Cello Concerto. Tour leaders include cultural historian Majda Kallab Whitaker of the Dvořák American Heritage Association and Dr. Jean E. Snyder, author of Harry T. Burleigh, From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance.

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Click HERE for a self-guided tour handout for tracing Dvořák’s footsteps on your own.  

 AT 2:00 PM, CONCERT

Attend a festive open-air performance of Antonin Dvořák’s Serenade in D minor for Winds, Violoncello, and Contrabass, Op. 44. The concert – performed by the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra – will be held near the Dvořák Statue in the northeast corner of Stuyvesant Square Park.  The Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra will be conducted by Carl C. Bettendorf.  DAHA President and Founding Member Susan Lucak will open the program with remarks about Dvořák’s New York home and American legacy. Free and open to the public.