The original manuscript of the "New World" Symphony returned for the first time to New York City, where it was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893. On loan from the Czech National Museum, the manuscript was reunited with original orchestral parts from the New York Philharmonic, created for the world premiere at Carnegie Hall in 1893.
On October 26th, DAHA presented a program of lectures and performances around the theme of musical melodrama (the combination of speech and music) and Dvořák’s near obsession with Longfellow’s Hiawatha.
On April 5, 2014, the Dvořák American Heritage Association and the Violoncello Society, Inc. joined in presenting an original manuscript, the recently discovered solo cello part of Antonín Dvořák’s American masterwork, the “Cello Concerto in B minor,” with an exhibition, interactive performance, and panel discussion by Dvořák experts. This event offered a window into the world of Dvořák’s creative process and collaboration with his German-American colleague, cellist Alwin Schroeder, in whose personal archive the manuscript was found.
On Sunday, October 27, 2013, DAHA sponsored a walking tour of the Stuyvesant Square district where Dvořák lived and worked from 1892 to 1895.
On Sunday, September 8, 2013, the original historic contract that brought Dvořák to America in September 1892 was publicly presented in the Dvořák Room for the first time, on Antonín Dvořák’s 172nd birthday.