Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862 / Edition 2

Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862 / Edition 2

by Vera Brodsky Lawrence
ISBN-10:
0226470156
ISBN-13:
9780226470153
Pub. Date:
02/01/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226470156
ISBN-13:
9780226470153
Pub. Date:
02/01/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862 / Edition 2

Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862 / Edition 2

by Vera Brodsky Lawrence

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Overview

In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. This third and final volume ranges across opera, orchestral and chamber music, blackface minstrels, military bands, church choirs, and even concert saloons.

Among the many striking scenes vividly portrayed in Repercussions are the rapturous reception of Verdi's Ballo in maschera in 1861; the impact of the Civil War on New York's music scene, from theaters closing as their musicians enlisted to the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at every possible occasion; and open-air concerts in the developing Central Park. Throughout, Lawrence mines a treasure trove of primary source materials including daily newspapers, memoirs, city directories, and architectural drawings.

Indispensable for scholars, Repercussions will also fascinate music fans with its witty writing and detailed descriptions of the cultural life of America's first metropolis.

Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin.

On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review

On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226470153
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 02/01/1999
Series: Strong on Music Series , #3
Edition description: 1
Pages: 658
Product dimensions: 6.62(w) x 9.38(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Vera Brodsky Lawrence, 1909-1996
1. GTS: 1857
Obbligato
2. GTS: 1858
Obbligato
3. GTS: 1859
Obbligato
4. GTS: 1860
Obbligato
5. GTS: 1861
Obbligato
6. GTS: 1862
Obbligato
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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