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The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (Czech: Symfonie č. 9 e moll "Z nového světa"), also known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895.
English: Goin' Home, derived from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, performed by the United States Air Force Band Other languages Čeština: Část s názvem Goin' Home Dvořákovy Symfonie č. 9 (Novosvětské) v podání Armádního souboru letectva Spojených států amerických.
"Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero", a 1983 instrumental track by Mark Knopfler from the soundtrack to the film Local Hero "Goin' Home" (composition) , a 1922 spiritual-like song adapted by William Arms Fisher from Symphony No. 9 ( From the New World ) by Antonín Dvořák
My Home in C major: orchestra: overture to the play Josef Kajetán Tyl, B. 125 126: 63: 1882: V přírodě: In Nature's Realm: mixed chorus: 5 choruses after poems by Vítězslav Hálek: 127: 64: 1881–82: Dimitrij: Dimitrij: tragic opera in 4 acts (historical); libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová; 1st version of B. 186 127a: 64/0: 1882 ...
Dvořák did not use actual folk tunes, but created his own themes in the style of traditional folk music, using the rhythms of original folk dances. A work that does not fit in the other categories is the Symphonic Variations of 1877. Orchestral variations on an original theme, composed as a freestanding work, were a rather unusual genre.
"Going Home" is an instrumental song by American saxophonist Kenny G which was released in 1990, from the artist's first live album Kenny G Live. Originally recorded in April 1988 for Stevie Nicks' album The Other Side of the Mirror, as working title "Tragedy Of One's Own Soul" and also earlier for a song titled "Lily Girl", both with lyrics written by Nicks.
Later William Arms Fisher wrote a text to the cor anglais tune in the second movement, entitled "Goin' Home", which has been mistaken for a Negro spiritual. In response to the challenge and the symphony, William Arms Fisher published an arrangement of Seventy Negro Spirituals in 1926.
It was the debut solo single by Knopfler, and charted at number 56 in the UK, [3] [4] at number 26 in the Netherlands and at number 18 in New Zealand. [5] The soundtrack album also features a reprise called "Wild Theme", which consists of Knopfler's acoustic guitar interpretation of the song's melody.