Strong on Music: the New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1 Vol. 1Resonances, 1836-1849 |
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| Author:
| Lawrence, Vera Brodsky |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-47009-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of
The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and
The Complete Works...
More DescriptionIn 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.
Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin.
On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."--Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review
On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."--Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly