List of Illustrations ix
List of Music Examples xiii
List of Tables xv
Preface xvii
A Tribute to John Graziano xix
ROBERTA GRAZIANO, RAOUL CAMUS, JOEL LESTER,
BARBARA RUSSANO HANNING, DAVID OLAN,
JENNIFER CHJ WILSON, JONAS WESTOVER, JOHN KOEGEL
PART 1 | Music in Urban Spaces
1 A Rarefied Art? Opera and Operatic Music as Popular Entertainment in Late-Nineteenth-Century Washington City, by Katherine K. Preston 3
2 American Music In and Around Nineteenth-Century Bristol, by Stephen Banfield 47
3 José Martí’s Patria, Cuban Émigré Musicians, and the Cuban Independence Movement in New York City in the 1890s, by John Koegel 63
4 Music at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, by Raoul F. Camus 91
5 A Capital Idea: Reginald de Koven and the Washington Symphony Orchestra, by Orly Leah Krasner 123
6 “The multitude listens with the heart”: Orchestras, Urban Culture, and the Early Years of the San Francisco Symphony, by Leta E. Miller 161
PART 2 | Art Music Repertories
7 The Reception of Beethoven’s String Quartets in New York, 1851–90: An Overview, by Ora Frishberg Saloman 193
8 Carl Bergmann the Pioneer: The Introduction of Zukunftsmusik to the New York Concert Repertory, by Matthew Reichert 211
9 “Mr. Chadwick has something to say that is worth hearing”: George Whitefield Chadwick’s Chamber Music, by Marianne Betz 227
10 William Grant Still’s Aesthetic Voice and “The Africa of my imagination”, by Catherine Parsons Smith 247
11 Da Capo Chamber Players and American Composers, by Joel Lester 261
PART 3 | Nineteenth-Century Popular Music Connections
12 Performing Foster, by Deane L. Root 275
13 Before and After the Ball: Approaching Tin Pan Alley, by Paul Charosh 311
14 Eleanor Stark: From Moszkowski to Classic Ragtime, by Edward A. Berlin 339
PART 4 | Music on Stage and in Film
15 Marietta Alboni in the New World, by Ruth Henderson 361
16 (Re)Establishing Southern Patriotism: Professional and Amateur Minstrelsy in Lynchburg, Virginia, by Jennifer CHJ Wilson 397
17 The Music of A Trip to Coontown, by Thomas L. Riis 421
18 Orchestrations for The Passing Show of 1914: An Analysis of the Techniques of Frank Saddler and Sol Levy, by Jonas Westover 439
19 Roger Imhof: A Vaudeville and Burlesque “Rube” and Irish Comic on Tour, by Paul R. Laird 461
20 Film Versions of Romberg’s The New Moon: From New Orleans to Russia and Back Again, by William A. Everett 479
21 The Jenkins Orphanage Band and Porgy and Bess, by Wayne D. Shirley 497
PART 5 | Traditional Music and Art Music Adaptations
22 Two Musical Modernists in Search of National Legitimacy: Arthur Farwell and Béla Bartók, 1904 to 1908, by Michael V. Pisani 513
23 Preservation and Presentation: Appalachian Folk Music and the Forging of an American Identity, by Ron Pen 541
24 “Country Songs” in the Hills and on the Plains of Colorado: An Overview of the Ben Gray Lumpkin Folksong Collection, by William Kearns 559
PART 6 | Sacred Music and Adaptations
25 Signifyin(g) on the South: Interpreting Creamer and Layton’s Song “Dear Old Southland,” by Christopher Bruhn 581
26 Reframing Negro Spirituals in the Late Nineteenth Century, by Sandra Jean Graham 603
27 How a Hymn Captured a Cherokee Community’s Destiny, by Kay Norton 629
28 Democracy Comes to the Choir Loft: Dudley Buck and the Popularization of American Sacred Music, by N. Lee Orr 647
29 Hall-Mack: Profile of a Gospel Music Publisher, 1895-1936, by Patricia Woodard 673
Professional Activities of John Graziano 695
Index 709
Contributors 735