While he lived in New York, Antonin Dvorák used the techniques and enthusiasm he had brought to the national music of his native Bohemia. Dvorák espoused the causes of Native- and African-Americans, studying their melodies and infusing his symphonic and chamber music with them to create the sonorities we still recognize as the sound of American classical music. Joelle Wallach illustrates Dvorák's life, music, and significance with lecture, slides, and musical examples.