b"Program Notescontinuedthat have an American sound, but people from Dvok's native country, Czechoslovakia, would say the same about the same passages. This, I believe, is due to the similar harmonic structure of American and bohemian folk music. Still, many people hear hints of the African American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot in the first movement. Also, the second movement, an original melody, sounded so much like a spiritual that it was later turned into one by one of Dvoks pupils and titled Goin Home. Dvok himself tells us that inspiration for the inner movements of the symphony can be attributed to the poem by Henry Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha.Dvok was thoroughly convinced that the future of American music had to be founded on African American melodies. He said, .This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States. He undoubtedly was thinking about the melodies he had heard from his student Burleigh. What he didnt know is this would come to pass with the emergence of jazz. Instrumentationtwo flutes, two oboes (2nd doubling English horn), two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, and stringsDuration40 minutes~Kenneth BeanAssistant ConductorPrinceton Symphony Orchestraprincetonsymphony.org/ 18/ princetonfestival.org"