OVERSEAS - Parallel At the same time there really is

Imagine this: Three sailors go ashore for their 24-hour vacation to discover New York. They experience the most incredible adventures in this enormous city that never sleeps. And while the three sailors feel like the first people on the moon, life in the metropolis is something its inhabitants take for granted. This scene describes the plot of Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," which will not be performed at this subscription concert. But it fits perfectly with Antonín Dvořák's real life: During his time in the "New World," he certainly felt like the sailors and asked himself: Can it be possible that a metropolis like New York and Nelahozeves, my birthplace, exist on the same planet? That such different worlds exist in parallel? Dvořák wrote The Noon Witch, and always felt intensely homesick when he returned home from New York.