American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century

John Spitzer teaches music history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is coauthor of The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650–1815.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Toward a History of American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
Deane L. Root
I. Ubiquity and Diversity
The Ubiquity and Diversity of Nineteenth-Century American Orchestras
John Spitzer
I.1. Building the American Symphony Orchestra: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Twenty-First-Century Musical Institution
Mark Clague
I.2. Modeling Music: Early Organizational Structures of American Women’s Orchestras
Anna-Lise P. Santella
I.3. American Orchestras and Their Unions in the Nineteenth Century
John Spitzer
II. The Orchestra and the American City
Orchestras: Local versus National
John Spitzer
II.1. Invisible Instruments: Theater Orchestras in New York, 1850–1900
John Graziano
II.2. Beethoven and Beer: Orchestral Music in German Beer Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New York City
John Koegel and Jonas Westover
II.3. Performances to “Permanence”: Orchestra Building in Late Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati
Karen Ahlquist
II.4. Critic and Conductor in 1860s Chicago: George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and Cultural Capitalism
James Deaville
II.5. Amateur and Professional, Permanent and Transient: Orchestras in the District of Columbia, 1877–1905
 Patrick Warfield
III. Conductors, Promoters, Patrons
Marketing the American Orchestra
John Spitzer
III.1. Bernard Ullman and the Business of Orchestras in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
Bethany S. Goldberg
III.2. John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: A Help or a Hindrance?
Mary Wallace Davidson
III.3. The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877–78: Background, Instrumentation, Programming, and Critical Reception
Ora Frishberg Saloman
III.4. Gender and the Germanians: “Art-Loving Ladies” in Nineteenth-Century Concert Life
Nancy Newman
IV. America and Europe
Orchestras: American and European
John Spitzer
IV.1. “A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon”: The 1853–54 American Tour by Jullien’s Extraordinary Orchestra
Katherine K. Preston
IV.2. Ureli Corelli Hill: His European Travels and the Creation of the New York Philharmonic
Barbara Haws
V. Orchestral Repertory
Orchestral Repertory: Highbrow and Lowbrow
John Spitzer
V.1.Orchestral Programs in Boston, 1842–55, in European Perspective
William Weber
V.2. Theodore Thomas and the Cultivation of American Music
Brenda Nelson-Strauss
V.3. Thinking about Serious Music in New York, 1842–82
Adrienne Fried Block
Afterword: Coming of Age
Ronald G. Walters
Bibliography
Contributors
Index