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1820-1838. Birth ; Leaving home ; Harmony hall ; First piano lessons ; Early musical conditions ; Two tunes for prayer meeting ; The Odeon -- 1838-1839, Boston. Partnership ; First efforts as organist and choir leader ; The first teaching of music in public schools ; The teachers' class of the Boston academy of music and my first efforts at vocal training in classes ; The Old Marlboro' and my unintentional critic ; Bowdoin St. Choir and my intentional critic ; Boston's first boat club ; Call to New York -- 1844-1847, New York. Abbott's school for young ladies ; Rutgers female institute ; Miss Haines' school ; The Union Theological seminary ; The New York institution for the blind and the Mercer St. Presbyterian church ; My marriage ; My quartet and performance at the philharmonic ; Summer convention and work with messrs. Mason and Webb ; Mr. Jacob Abbott's advice about the way to keep a diary -- 1848-1849, New York. Spingler institute ; Adding difficulties to the musical work of my classes ; Reference to Dr. Mason's first "Singing school" ; My first efforts at composition and book-making ; Different musical grades ; Jenny Lind -- 1850-1851, New York and Paris. Getting ready for a trip abroad ; The voyage ; Arrival in Paris ; A few words on the study of a foreign language ; The singing at the Madeleine ; Lessons from Alary and Potharst ; A musical compatriot ; Gottschalk ; Memorable concerts -- 1851, Paris and London. Fourth of July ; The conversational mode of learning French, and the romance that followed ; Two concerts at Exeter Hall, London ; The loyalty of the English to old favorites ; The first world's exposition ; American friends ; The McCormick Reaper ; The sewing machine ; The Day & Newell lock ; The yacht America ; The narrow escape on the home voyage -- 1851-1853, New York. "The flower queen" and the first "Rose" ; "Wurzel" and "The hazel dell ; My best piano pupil ; The first normal music institute ; "Daniel" and early books ; The new house at Willow farm, and the singing in the village church ; My first musical convention ; The value of a specialty ; The old violin ; Early orchestras -- 1853-1855, New York. A frank statement ; Geniuses in music ; "The shining shore" ; Early books ; The first American made Doctor of Music ; Early conventions at Richmond, Va. and in the west ; Preparing to Leave New York ; How the "Normal" went to North Reading -- 1856-1859, North Reading, Mass. A great school in a small town ; A visit from Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Stowe ; Nathan Richardson and "Rosalie, the prairie flower" ; Writing at Willow farm ; "The haymakers" ; The beginning of ear training classes, for harmony ; "Except ye become as little children" ; Distinguished visitors ; Relative profits of cantata maker and cantata giver ; Compositions as property -- 1859-1861, North Reading and Chicago. Prominent members of the Normal Institute ; Writing at Willow farm ; Our simple music in England ; Root and Cady ; The currency ; The greater the refinement, the smaller the coin ; Chicago in 1858 ; The "Camaraderie" in a new country ; Conventions on the prairies ; Land sharks ; First organ book ; The first gun of war -- 1861-1870, Chicago. Writing war songs ; Some incidents concerning them ; Henry C. Work ; P.P. Bliss ; "The song messenger of the Northwest" ; The origin of "Tramp" ; Growth of business ; James R. Murray and "Daisy Deane" ; Br.R. Hanby ; Caryl Florio ; Dr. Mason's last normal ; The normal at South Bend, Ind. ; The organ of "National normal" ; Carlo Rossini -- 1871-1873, Chicago. The health lift and the astonished piano movers ; The gigantic lottery scheme ; Our successful publications, including Dr. Palmer's and Mr. Bliss's early works ; Heavy stock ; The great fire ; My green box ; Mr. Curwen's gift ; New business arrangements ; The normal of '72 ; The sad telegram -- 1873-1886, Chicago. Business re-adjustments ; Various national institutes and conventions ; The memorial centennial year ; Park church at Elmira ; Grasshoppers ; A further list of books ; English editions ; Passage taken to cross the water again -- On board the steamer Ethiopia. Glasgow ; First Sunday in London ; St. Martin's-in-the-fields ; Interludes ; The London Sunday-school union ; The Curwens ; Voluntary Royalties ; Herne house ; Mr. Evans and the London public schools -- The work of the tonic-sol-fa college ; Mr. Behnke's light to the throat ; England and Dickens ; The boys of the Medway union ; Don ; The Staffordshire potteries and the Burslem singers ; Epping Forest and the Lawn party at Forest gate ; Rev. John Curwen's Grave ; The choir of the chapel royal ; Mr. J.A. Birtch and "The Haymakers" -- The parish church. Traditional chanting ; The "Swanley boys" ; The hall of Parliament ; A reception on Mr. Curwen's lawn ; Forty conductors ; The British museum ; A musical catalogue ; One of the London "Choirs" ; The South London choral institute ; Dr. Allon's church is at Islington ; My sixty-sixth birthday ; The crystal palace and "Autumn winds" ; The concert was on the City of Rome -- Home again. The "Pillar of fire" and other cantatas ; The idea of "Cantatas for the people" ; Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Curwen's visit to America ; "War song" concerts ; The loyal legion ; The unusual history of musical societies ; How "The Haymakers" helped out ; Family matters, "Roots and branches" ; The Hyde park Yacht club and the summer congregation on the lake -- The John Church co. ; The principals of the house ; Their homes ; Ancestral descent ; The memorable celebration at Hyde park in High school ; Mr. John Church's death ; Preparations for the world's Columbian exposition ; My piano trade ; My seventieth birthday ; Vale! -- Appendix. Books ; Sheet music -- Music. Slumber sweetly, dearest -- A voice from the lake -- I will lay me down in peace -- There is a stream -- The hazel dell -- Rosalie, the prairie flower -- The battle cry of freedom -- Just before the battle, mother -- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! -- The vacant chair -- There's music in the air -- The shining shore. |
