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A Tidal Wave of Encouragement: American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0275974464, 9780275974466
Open Library ID
OL18133967M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14494390 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallee performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States and Europe, a movement that fostered both the development and the perception of American music as a unique art form. A Tidal Wave of Encouragement-the title of which is derived from one observer's description of the movement-is the first in-depth study of this significant period in American music. Providing a comprehensive history of the Concerts as well as detailed accounts of the intense critical debate surrounding them, author E. Douglas Bomberger reveals how one decade shaped the future of American classical music and very much impacted the way we hear it today.

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