Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862

by Vera Brodsky Lawrence

Book Overview

In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. This third and final volume ranges across opera, orchestral and chamber music, blackface minstrels, military bands, church choirs, and even concert saloons.

Among the many striking scenes vividly portrayed in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226470164
• ISBN13: 9780226470160
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"