Classical music in America a history of its rise and fall
| Main Author: | Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.