| Contents |
Part one. In the concert hall. Music in Boston (April 10, 1852) -- Jenny Lind (May 29, 1852) -- Ole Bull (June 12, 1852) -- Jullien and his orchestra (October 15, October 29, 1853) -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (October 22, 1853) -- Sigismond Thalberg (January 17, 1857) -- Homecoming from abroad (February 1, 1862) -- Concert in wartime (March 8, 1862) -- American audiences (May 14, 1864) -- The peace jubilee (July 3, 1869) -- Theodore Thomas (November 6, 1869, December 14, 1872) -- The Nilsson Concert Company (November 19, 1870) -- Rubinstein and Wieniawski (October 19, 1872, November 2, 1872) -- Hans von Bülow (October 30, 1875, November 13, 1875) -- American composers (August 5, 1876) -- Apthorp on Wilhelmj (November 9, 1878) -- Part two. At the opera. New York (April 10, 1852) -- Trovatopera (October 2, 1858) -- Adelina Patti (December 3, 1859, January 7, 1860) -- Clara Louise Kellogg (March 23, 1861) -- An American opera (May 14, 1864, May 28, 1864) -- German opera (May 14, 1864) -- Italian opera again - Minnie Hauk (November 24, 1866) -- The French opera in New Orleans (February 29, 1868) -- The Mapleson Company - Carmen (November 23, 1878) -- The Pinafore craze (July 19, 1879) -- Part three. In the hinterland. A tour westward (June 19, 1852) -- From San Francisco (May 3, 1856) -- The Moravians of Pennsylvania (July 24, 1858, August 7, 1858) -- A music teacher out West (December 24, 1859) -- From St. Louis (December 8, 1860, Feburary 8, 1862) -- From Chicago (December 4, 1869, April 9, 1870) -- A concert company in Georgia (Feburary 11, 1871) -- Educating an audience (May 12, 1877) -- A decade of progress (January 18, 1879) -- From Cincinnati (March 26, 1881) -- Part four. American institutions. Conventions and beyond - Lowell Mason (August 14, 1852, May 14, 1853) -- The New York Philharmonic Society (November 3, 1855) -- Chamber music (May 1, 1858, June 5, 1858) -- The Handel and Haydn Society (May 9, 1868) -- American conservatories (June 18, 1870) -- A musical professorship (August 21, 1875, September 18, 1875) -- The Boston Symphony Orchestra (April 9, 1881, July 16, 1881) -- Part five. Songs of the Blacks. A letter from Georgia (Feburary 26, 1853) -- Songs of captivity (November 15, 1856) -- Who wrote the Negro songs? (March 21, 1857, May 14, 1859) -- Minstrels (May 21, 1859) -- Contraband singing (Septebmer 7, 1861, August 9, 1862, November 8, 1862, July 20, 1867) -- The Fisk Jubilee Singers (April 5, 1873, November 29, 1873, February 2, 1878). |
| Abstract |
Sixty-odd articles selected from some 8000 pages of a 19th century Boston magazine here describe concert and opera life in the U.S. of that day, both in the big Eastern cities and in the hinterland orchestras, choral societies, conservatories and the less formal music of the small towns and common folk. Grouped chronologically, well introduced and annotated, the extracts report on the era's musical thought and activity in all its diversity: concerts by Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Ole Bull, Louis Gottschalk, Hans von Bulow and Anton Rubinstein, first performances of Gilbert and Sullivan, the songs of Stephen Foster, brass bands, minstrel shows, musical freaks and organ grinders. Readers interested in music or history will find much here to enlighten them about America's cultural past. |
