The material on this site, Direct Testimony, is excerpted from the DVD-ROM, From the New World, A Celebrated Composer's American Odyssey, created by Robert Winter and Peter Bogdanoff and published by ArtsInteractive.
From the New World, A Celebrated Composer's American Odyssey is an exciting adventure into the world of 1890s America when the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák stepped off the boat in New York City and entered the New World. This DVD-ROM program for Macintosh and Windows computers explores the social, cultural, artistic, and technological scene that enveloped Dvorák when he accepted a position at a New York music conservatory and wrote his immensly popular Ninth Symphony, "From the New World."