120 years ago today, Dvorak’s New World Symphony debuted in New York. Here’s the Vienna Philharmonic performing the “Largo” from this remarkable work.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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