The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, known by the title, "From the New World" (otherwise simply known as the New World Symphony), is a symphonic composition composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered in New York City on 16 December 1893.
It is the music that was used in Ring Around the Planet and How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story.
Summary[]
In Season 1[]
In Ring Around the Planet, the symphony was used to sing about Ring going back to Saturn and Ring are back home.
In How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story, the symphony was used to sing about Rocket finding a home.
Structure[]
The symphony is composed of 4 movements:
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 B. 178 - From the New World[]
- Adagio - Allegro molto (in G minor - G major)
- Largo (in D-flat major - C-sharp minor)
- Scherzo - Molto vivace (in E minor)
- Allegro con fuoco (in G minor - E minor)
Episode Appearances[]
Season 1[]
Songs adapted from the New World Symphony[]
Ring Around the Planet[]
How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story[]
Trivia[]
- Although the symphony's number is shared with Beethoven's 9th Symphony, it is entirely different with its keys: Dvořák's 9th Symphony is in E Minor and Beethoven's 9th Symphony is in D Minor.
- The symphony was completed in the building that now houses the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, Iowa.
- It is the first classical music piece to be used in the entire series, having being used in the first ever episode (based on airdate). If it is based on production order, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 would be the first classical music piece to be used in the series.
- Most of the songs sung by the Little Einsteins in Ring Around the Planet and How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story mention about going home, a reference to the song Goin' Home, written by Dvořák's pupil, William Arms Fisher, which itself was an adaptation from the tune used in the Largo movement of the symphony.
In popular culture[]
- Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of the New World Symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.
- The symphony is one of the pieces played when the New York Philharmonic hosted a concert in Pyongyang, North Korea in 2008, as part of a culture exchange. The concert itself was a significant event in North Korean and American diplomatic and cultural relations.
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