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I was introduced to Dvorak and the New World Symphony through the anime Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World).

My favorite part of the New World Symphony is the largo, and found some of the background in this article interesting.

> Dvořák was also moved by the tale of Hiawatha, a founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. The largo is, in part, meant to describe the end of Hiawatha’s life. The old chief, weary from a life of labor, loss, and ardent service to his people, sits on the shores of the Great Sea Water and faces his own final homegoing.