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Apologia xiii Book One "Queen of the Arts": Birth and Growth Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities (1893) 5 Part one Boston and the Cult of Beethoven 13 1 John Sullivan Dwight, Theodore Thomas, and 15 the Slaying of the Monster Concerts Patrick Gilmore's Peace Jubilee of 1869 t John Sullivan Dwight and the framing of a sacred "classical music" t The failings of early Boston orchestras t The triumphs of the Thomas Orchestra 2 Henry Higginson and the Birth of the 43 Boston Symphony Orchestra George Henschel's enthusiasm t Wilhelm Gericke's discipline t Arthur Nikisch's scandalous Beethoven t Philip Hale and Henry Krehbiel assess Dvorÿçk in Boston 3 Building a Hall, Choosing a Conductor 70 Henry Higginson's high character t He builds Symphony Hall t He hires Karl Muck t Henry Russell's Boston Opera t Muck's arrest t Higginson, Charles Eliot Norton, and the uses of Boston culture 4 Composers and the Brahmin Confinement 94 The problem of gentility t The Second New England School t Amy Beach and salon culture t George Chadwick and American realism t Isabella Stewart Gardner, Charles Martin Loeffler, and Boston aestheticism Part two New York and Beyond 119 5 Anton Seidl and the Sacralization of Opera 121 American opera madness t English-language opera t Opera and uplift t The Metropolitan Opera, Wagnerism, and the genteel tradition reinterpreted 6 Symphonic Rivalry and Growth 148 The early New York Philharmonic t Tchaikovsky and Carnegie Hall t Wagner at Coney Island t The Chicago Orchestra and class warfare t Theodore Thomas dies 7 Leopold Stokowski, Gustav Mahler, 179 Arturo Toscanini, and the Gossip of the Foyer Leopold Stokowski in Cincinnati and Philadelphia t Gustav Mahler in New York t Henry Krehbiel and the critics t Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera t Arturo Toscanini's Metropolitan Opera 8 AntonÆn Dvorÿçk and Charles Ives 211 in Search of America William Henry Fry and Louis Moreau Gottschalk t Edward MacDowell's arrested development t AntonÆn Dvorÿçk and Hiawatha t Charles Ives and Transcendentalism Coda: Music and the Gilded Age 242 "Social control," "sacralization," and the debunking of Gilded Age culture t The coming of modernism t Arthur Farwell and musical grassroots t In defense of nostalgia Book Two "Great Performances": Decline and Fall Introduction: The Great Schism (1914) 265 Part one The Culture of Performance 271 1 The Big Three 273 The Toscanini cult t David Sarnoff and NBC t Leopold Stokowski and innovation t Serge Koussevitzky and education 2 More Conductors 305 Frederick Stock and Fritz Reiner in Chicago t Artur Rodzinski and George Szell in Cleveland t Otto Klemperer in Los Angeles and New York t Dimitri Mitropoulos in Minneapolis and New York 3 The World's Greatest Soloists 328 Sergei Rachmaninoff and America t Touring virtuosos t Jascha Heifetz and Vladimir Horowitz t Artur Schnabel and Rudolf Serkin t Van Cliburn, Glenn Gould, and the OYAPs 4 Opera for Singers 358 The remoteness of the Met t Serving Tristan and Otello t Edward Johnson and the American singer t Mary Garden and opera in Chicago t Gaetano Merola and opera in San Francisco t The American culture of performance summarized Part two Offstage Participants 393 5 Serving the New Audience 395 Babbitt and the new middle classes t The phonograph and the decline of Hausmusik t Music appreciation t Arthur Judson, Columbia Artists, and Community Concerts t Judson and the New York Philharmonic t Who leads taste? 6 Composers on the Sidelines 433 Aaron Copland, modernism, and populism t Virgil Thomson as critic and composer t Roy Harris as the "white hope" t Edgard VarÅse and the "ultra-moderns" t George Gershwin and the jazz threat t The four streams of American music 7 Leonard Bernstein and the Classical Music Crisis 475 Leonard Bernstein succeeds and fails t Orchestras succeed and fail t Rudolf Bing at the Met t Regional opera t The Three Tenors and midcult t Elliott Carter and the stranding of the American composer Postlude: Post-Classical Music 518 Minimalism and postmodernism t American mavericks t BAM and the need for change t Classical music in the year 2000 Notes 541 Index 571
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Music -- United States -- History and criticism.