Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849
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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 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
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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226470091
ISBN13:9780226470092
Release Date:April 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:742 Pages
Weight:2.51 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.8" x 9.3"
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