Classical music in America a history of its rise and fall

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Main Author: Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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245 1 0 |a Classical music in America :  |b a history of its rise and fall /  |c Joseph Horowitz. 
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260 |a New York :  |b W.W. Norton,  |c c2005. 
300 |a xix, 606 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a bk. 1. "Queen of the arts" : birth and growth. Introduction : a tale of two cities (1893) -- pt. 1. Boston and the cult of Beethoven ; John Sullivan Dwight, Theodore Thomas, and the slaying of the monster concerts ; Henry Higginson and the birth of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Building a hall, choosing a conductor ; Composers and the Brahmin confinement -- pt. 2. New York and beyond. Anton Seidl and the sacralization of opera ; Symphonic rivalry and growth ; Leopold Stokowski, Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and the gossip of the foyer ; Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives in search of America ; Coda : music and the Gilded Age. 
505 8 |a bk. 2. "Great performances" : decline and fall. Introduction : the great schism (1914) -- pt. 1. The culture of performance. The big three ; More conductors ; The world's greatest soloists ; Opera for singers -- pt. 2. Offstage participants. Serving the new audience ; Composers on the sidelines ; Leonard Bernstein and the classical music crisis ; Postlude : post-classical music. 
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