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Goin' Home

Arts Desk

The Story Behind The Nostalgic Melody by Dvorak That Became The Song "Goin' Home"

Susan Lewis

Antonin Dvorak wrote his Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," soon after arriving in America in 1893. A yearning melody from the second movement took on a new life as a popular American song that continues to be reinvented.