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

• Autore: Faucett Bill F
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.92; B
• Soggetto topico: Composers - United States
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: George Whitefield Chadwick
• ISBN: 1-280-49133-7; 9786613586568; 1-55553-774-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790273503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II