Experience the beauty of America through an outsider’s perspective – Dvořák’s – thrilled by the sounds and sights of this wild new country upon his arrival. He admired the beauty of African American spirituals, and was fascinated by Native American traditions. When describing his New World symphony, he said, “I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies,” yet, in the end, his Ninth is a glowing expression of both the Old World and the New.