Bill F. Faucett

Music in Boston (eBook, ePUB)

Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 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 Boston's 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 outsiders-Patrick Gilmore, Theodore Thomas, Richard Wagner, New York's Metropolitan Opera, and Richard Strauss-on 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 composers-John Knowles Paine, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach and others-and discusses their key compositions and legacy. Finally, the book explores Boston itself: its transformations via immigration, its ever-changing topography, and its economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498537391
• Artikelnr.: 45066097

Autorenporträt

Bill F. Faucett is an arts administrator and fundraiser and a former classical music critic and columnist at the Palm Beach Post and American Record Guide. He is director of development at the University of South Florida's College of The Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Beethoven's Statue
1. "Something to Represent the Movement"
2. "Running after Strange Gods"
3. Forging Boston's Musical Atmosphere
4. Varieties of American Music
5. Modern Music Comes to Boston
6. The Lure of Opera
7. Musical Boston and the Great War
Epilogue: "Bear us into Realms Ideal"