American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren’t just symphonic works—programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes.This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians’ unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players. Painting a rich and detailed picture of nineteenth-century concert life, this collection will greatly broaden our understanding of America’s musical history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 43 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:504
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226756059

Utforska kategorier

Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

John Spitzer teaches music history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is coauthor of The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650–1815.

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“This superb collection of essays breaks new ground. The scholarship by preeminent scholars relies on new archival sources. The volume’s contribution to the history of music in America is unique. Readers in many fields will benefit from Spitzer’s collection: an encounter with the extent of amateur concert life, the history of musicians’ unions and touring ensembles, and the origins of today’s professional orchestras in Chicago, Cincinnati, and New York. The richness and variety of concert repertoire in America, much of it forgotten, come alive. Playing and listening to orchestral music in nineteenth-century America assume a significance long underestimated. This is a long overdue contribution to understanding music within urban and public culture in America before 1900.”

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Toward a History of American Orchestras in the Nineteenth CenturyDeane L. RootI. Ubiquity and DiversityThe Ubiquity and Diversity of Nineteenth-Century American OrchestrasJohn SpitzerI.1. Building the American Symphony Orchestra: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Twenty-First-Century Musical InstitutionMark ClagueI.2. Modeling Music: Early Organizational Structures of American Women’s OrchestrasAnna-Lise P. SantellaI.3. American Orchestras and Their Unions in the Nineteenth CenturyJohn SpitzerII. The Orchestra and the American CityOrchestras: Local versus NationalJohn SpitzerII.1. Invisible Instruments: Theater Orchestras in New York, 1850–1900John GrazianoII.2. Beethoven and Beer: Orchestral Music in German Beer Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New York CityJohn Koegel and Jonas WestoverII.3. Performances to “Permanence”: Orchestra Building in Late Nineteenth-Century CincinnatiKaren AhlquistII.4. Critic and Conductor in 1860s Chicago: George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and Cultural CapitalismJames DeavilleII.5. Amateur and Professional, Permanent and Transient: Orchestras in the District of Columbia, 1877–1905Patrick WarfieldIII. Conductors, Promoters, PatronsMarketing the American OrchestraJohn SpitzerIII.1. Bernard Ullman and the Business of Orchestras in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New YorkBethany S. GoldbergIII.2. John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: A Help or a Hindrance?Mary Wallace DavidsonIII.3. The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877–78: Background, Instrumentation, Programming, and Critical ReceptionOra Frishberg SalomanIII.4. Gender and the Germanians: “Art-Loving Ladies” in Nineteenth-Century Concert LifeNancy NewmanIV. America and EuropeOrchestras: American and EuropeanJohn SpitzerIV.1. “A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon”: The 1853–54 American Tour by Jullien’s Extraordinary OrchestraKatherine K. PrestonIV.2. Ureli Corelli Hill: His European Travels and the Creation of the New York PhilharmonicBarbara HawsV. Orchestral RepertoryOrchestral Repertory: Highbrow and LowbrowJohn SpitzerV.1.Orchestral Programs in Boston, 1842–55, in European PerspectiveWilliam WeberV.2. Theodore Thomas and the Cultivation of American MusicBrenda Nelson-StraussV.3. Thinking about Serious Music in New York, 1842–82Adrienne Fried BlockAfterword: Coming of AgeRonald G. WaltersBibliographyContributorsIndex