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George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England

Title
George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England / Bill F. Faucett.
Author
Faucett, Bill F.
Publication
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2012.

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Description
xii, 416 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-399) and index.
Contents
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, 1880s -- Songs and choruses, fairs and festivals : Chadwick and America's vocal traditions, 1890s -- A hell of a job for a composer : taking charge at New England Conservatory, 1897 -- Sketches in Americanism : Chadwick's instrumental music, 1890s -- 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.
Call Number
JNE 12-134
ISBN
  • 9781555537722 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1555537723 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781555537739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1555537731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012002173
OCLC
760976158
Author
Faucett, Bill F.
Title
George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England / Bill F. Faucett.
Imprint
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-399) and index.
Research Call Number
JNE 12-134
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