George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England / Bill F. Faucett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faucett, Bill F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--United States--Biography.

Composers.

Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931.

Chadwick, G. W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The definitive biography of a major American composer and musical leader

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, 1880's

Songs and choruses, fairs and festivals : Chadwick and America's vocal traditions, 1890's

A hell of a job for a composer : taking charge at New England Conservatory, 1897

Sketches in Americanism : Chadwick's instrumental music, 1890's

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49133-7

9786613586568

1-55553-774-X

OCLC:

792730693