Description
Book SynopsisBringing to life not only portraits of musicians, composers, and conductors whose stories and recollections are woven into the fabric of this book, but musical scores and concert halls, Musical Maryland is an engaging, authoritative, and bold look at an endlessly compelling subject.
Table of ContentsPrelude
1. Drawing Rooms, Taverns, Churches, and Tobacco Fields
Overture
Complete Gentlemen and Agreeable Women
Playing by Heart
Playing Music for a Living
A Passion for Theater
Dance and Dance Music
Liturgical Music
Music and Independence
2. Something for Everyone
From Cathedral to Camp Meeting
Baltimore Theater at the Dawn of the New Republic
Dancing
Effusion
Musical Entrepreneurship
Parlor Music
Sheet Music and Civics Lessons
Music to Work By
Off Hours
Classical Taste
Piano Making and Musical Instruction
Musically German
Celebrity Singers and the Clamor for Opera
Popular Song and Racial Prejudice
3. Intermission
Home of the Brave
Parlor to Patriotism
My Maryland
Maryland Sings for the South
Maryland's Songs for Union
Music Encamped
Music of the Maryland US Colored Troops
Sotto Voce
4. Toward Union and Concord
A New Birth of Music
The Enchanted Flute
Out on the Town
Chambers, Beer Gardens, and Festivals Fortissimo
Sturm und Drang at the Peabody
Baltimore Builds the Lyric
Prelude to an Orchestra
5. My Maryland
Resuscitating the Conservatory; Envisioning an Orchestra
Great War, Popular Fears
Ain't Misbehavin'
American Rhapsody
The Pennsylvania Avenue Rag
Leaving Home for Harlem
Pleasures of the Pit Orchestra
Summertime
6. Musical Airs, Aired Music
Best Out-of-Town Feed
Depression
Amateur Hour
"Straight Americanese" from East Baltimore
Home, Home on the Shore
Music on the Home Front
War Work
The Baltimore Civic Opera in Peace and War
Overture to Equality
Once More, with Feeling
Coda
Notes
Index
