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Culture: Lured to the Big Apple by big bucks; Christopher Morley explores the mixture of new influences and nostalgia which makes Dvorak's Ninth, the New World, one of the most popular symphonies ever written.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20030207
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Antonin Dvorak was a frequent visitor to England and, above all, Birmingham.

He stayed in the city on several occasions to hear his works performed in the Town Hall during the prestigious Birmingham Triennial Festivals, and was known to slip away down New Street to the railway station for a bit of train-spotting.

But the composer also travelled much further afield from his Czech homeland, as far away in fact as the United States, enticed by an American millionairess (her husband was a spectacularly successful wholesale grocer) to take over ...

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