| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 606 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-567) and index. |
| Contents |
Book 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 -- Book 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. |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
| ISBN |
0393057178 hardcover |
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