Goin’ Home Anton Dvorak, W. A. fisher, Oliver Ditson Music Co. This was written by the great composer Anton Dvorak, who came to New York from Bohemia to be the head of the New York Conservatory of Music, in the late 1800’s. He fell in love with the simple music of the black slaves, and when he wrote his New World Symphony that influence could be felt, especially in the ‘Largo’ movement. It was presented for the first time in Carnegie Hall in 1893, and when the wealthy sophisticated audience responded to the sheer beauty of the music, it seemed to evoke a nostalgia of the soul, and eyes filled with tears all around the great hall. In the 1920’s lyrics were added and it became the song we know as ‘Going Home’. When I heard it for the first time just a few years ago, it drew the same powerful emotions.