Marin Alsop made musical history in 2005 as the first woman to be appointed music director of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Composer Biography
Antonín Dvořák, the composer, was born the son of a butcher and innkeeper and was initially expected to follow the family trade.
Performer Biography
Marin Alsop, the conductor, was a protégée of Leonard Bernstein after winning the Koussevitsky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center.
Composer Biography
Dvořák earned his living as a viola player in a band that later formed the nucleus of the Czech Provisional Theatre Orchestra, where Bedřich Smetana was appointed conductor.
Composer Biography
Dvořák was invited to become director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, an institution intended to foster American music, and his work there influenced his Symphony 'From the New World'.
Composition History
Dvořák's music gained wider recognition when his application for an Austrian government award brought his work to the attention of Johannes Brahms and critic Eduard Hanslick.
Composition History
Johannes Brahms, impressed by Dvořák's Moravian Duets, arranged for their publication and commissioned the Slavonic Dances, which introduced Dvořák's music to a wider public.
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