Music, American Made: Essays in Honor of John Graziano

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