Going Home: Dvorak's muscial salute to America

Dvorak's New World Symphony remains popular, but this sad excerpt is now played (and sung) as the hymn Going Home: 

the sad melody had lyrics put to it, and is often played or sung at funerals: LINK

 you might remember it being played at Regan's Funeral but most famously in the funeral scene from A Clear and Present Danger.

here is the melody without the singing:

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The Symphony has many musical influences:  this NPR article points out how it is influenced by Black Spirituals and American folk songs.

(And don't forget to donate to NPR: I may object to them getting tax dollars due to their obvious bias, but I do support their being able to articulate a liberal point of view without the vehemence of certain US Cable channels.)

and here is the Wikipedia summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvořák)

So anyway, if you don't want to check out the complicated discussion in those links, here is an easy summary for your enjoyment:

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amd the full symphony is here: and the Largo I cited above is at 12 minutes.