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Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall.(Book Review)
Classical Music in America: a History of Its Rise and Fall, by Joseph Horowitz. W. W. Norton (500 Fifth Ave., New York, NF 1010), 2005. 606 pp. $39.95.
This is a big book--a substantial account of concert music in the United States by an author who has written extensively on the subject.
Classical Music in America is organized into two parts. Book One, "Queen of the Arts," starts in mid-19th century with the influential Boston critic Timothy Dwight, who Horowitz believes "more than any other individual first defines what Americans meant by 'classical music.'" Horowitz uses Boston--and Henry Higginson's herculean efforts of developing the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the "sacralization" of Beethoven, and the more democractic New York, with its "sacralization" of opera--as differing models of American classical music, in what he believes is its most dynamic phase, the Gilded Age. Book Two, "Great Performances Decline and Fall," starts after World War I and discusses the rise of professional soloists, at the expense of American composers, "the new middle classes and midcult, and the confusions of today."
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