Music in Boston (eBook)

Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918

Bill F. Faucett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
294 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3739-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852–1918 provides insights into the historical, intellectual, and artistic background of Boston's musical culture from just prior to the Civil War through the end of World War I. Through detailed discussions of composers, writings, guest artists, and the rise of Boston’s musical institutions, Music in Boston illuminates the era unlike any other volume.

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Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 18521918 is a history of the city's classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before the American Civil War and extends to the close of the Great War. The book provides insights into the intellectual foundation of Bostons musical development as revealed in the writings of its significant critics and thinkers, including John Sullivan Dwight, John Knowles Paine, William Foster Apthorp, and others. It also examines the influence of outsidersPatrick Gilmore, Theodore Thomas, Richard Wagner, New York's Metropolitan Opera, and Richard Strausson Boston's performance and composition scene while also considering events that affected music in Boston, such as the building of the Music Hall, the acquisition of its Great Organ, the National Peace Jubilee, Chicago's Columbian Exposition, Boston's first Wagner Festival, and the rise and fall of the Boston Opera Company. Music in Boston also accounts for the ascent of the Second New England School of composersJohn Knowles Paine, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach and othersand discusses their key compositions and legacy. Finally, the book explores Boston itself: its transformations via immigration, its ever-changing topography, and its economy.

Autor

Bill F. Faucett is director of development at the College of the Arts at The University of South Florida.

Inhalt

Prologue: Beethoven’s Statue1. “Something to Represent the Movement”2. “Running after Strange Gods”3. Forging Boston’s Musical Atmosphere4. Varieties of American Music5. Modern Music Comes to Boston6. The Lure of Opera7. Musical Boston and the Great WarEpilogue: “Bear us into Realms Ideal”

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 29 Illustrations including: - 21 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 8 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 1852-1918 • Amy Beach • Arthur Fotte • Boston • Boston Opera Company • Boston Symphony Orchestra • Charles Martin Loeffler • Classical music • Edward MacDowell • George Whitefield Chadwick • John Sullivan Dwight • music
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3739-1 / 1498537391
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3739-1 / 9781498537391