A Tidal Wave of Encouragement: American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age

by E. Douglas Bomberger

In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavall e performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States and Europe, a movement that fostered both the development and the perception of American music as a unique art form. A Tidal Wave of Encouragement-the title of which is derived from one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275974464
• ISBN13: 9780275974466
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"