| Description |
xii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-399) and index. |
| Contents |
The purest American stock : Chadwick's New England roots -- Musical atmospheres : early life in Lowell, Lawrence, Boston, and Michigan, 1854-1876 -- Chadwick's European education, 1877-1880 -- Getting started in Boston, 1880-1882 -- That fatal facility : Chadwick's Boston, 1880s -- Songs and choruses, fairs and festivals : Chadwick and America's vocal traditions, 1890s -- A hell of a job for a composer : taking charge at New England Conservatory, 1897 -- Sketches in Americanism : Chadwick's instrumental music, 1890s -- Chadwick, modernism, and the end of an era : Adonais to Cleopatra, 1899-1905 -- Our great pilgrimage : Chadwick's grand tour, 1905-1906 -- Thursday evenings and the sea, 1906-1912 -- A beautiful but costly exotic : opera in Boston, the Met, and the padrone, 1913 -- We live on hope : Chadwick's response to the Great War, 1914-1919 -- Altschuler, 1919-1930. |
| Summary |
In many ways, this is the story of the birth of the American style in classical music. George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) was one of the most significant and influential American composers at the turn of the twentieth century and a leading light of the Boston cultural scene. Bill F. Faucett offers a detailed exploration of Chadwick's life and art utilizing archival material only recently made available. These crucial primary sources, including letters, diaries, and memoirs, enable a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Chadwick's music and aesthetic perspective, and provide a clearer lens through which to view his life, career, and times. The book traces Chadwick's story from his earliest musical education to his surging career in Boston's nascent musical culture of the 1880s, to his fruitful middle years, and finally to his later life and towering legacy. In addition to bringing newfound appreciation of Chadwick's life, Faucett's book offers penetrating examinations of his major compositions and a vivid re-creation of Boston's rich and influential musical and cultural scene [Publisher description] |
| Subject |
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931.
|
|
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931. |
|
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
|
|
Composers. |
|
United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| ISBN |
9781555537722 cloth alkaline paper |
|
1555537723 cloth alkaline paper |
|
9781555537739 paperback alkaline paper |
|
1555537731 paperback alkaline paper |
|
9781555537746 ebook |
|
155553774X ebook |
| Standard No. |
40020875678 |
|
