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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790273503321

Autore

Faucett Bill F

Titolo

George Whitefield Chadwick [[electronic resource] ] : the life and music of the pride of New England / / Bill F. Faucett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49133-7

9786613586568

1-55553-774-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

780.92

B

Soggetti

Composers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The purest American stock : Chadwick's New England roots -- Musical atmospheres : early life in Lowell, Lawrence, Boston, and Michigan, 1854-1876 -- Chadwick's European education, 1877-1880 -- Getting started in Boston, 1880-1882 -- That fatal facility : Chadwick's Boston, 1880's -- Songs and choruses, fairs and festivals : Chadwick and America's vocal traditions, 1890's -- A hell of a job for a composer : taking charge at New England Conservatory, 1897 -- Sketches in Americanism : Chadwick's instrumental music, 1890's -- Chadwick, modernism, and the end of an era : Adonais to Cleopatra, 1899-1905 -- Our great pilgrimage : Chadwick's grand tour, 1905-1906 -- Thursday evenings and the sea, 1906-1912 -- A beautiful but costly exotic : opera in Boston, the Met, and the padrone, 1913 -- We live on hope : Chadwick's response to the Great War, 1914-1919 -- Altschuler, 1919-1930.

Sommario/riassunto

The definitive biography of a major American composer and musical leader