Music in
in collaboration with
The
and
The Institute
for Studies in American Music
announces a conference
The
19th-Century American Orchestra
“Americans
have always been besotted by orchestras,” so writes
the New Yorker's music critic, Alex Ross. This first scholarly conference on
the nineteenth century orchestra will consider some of the ways this
fascination came about, and grew over time in diverse locales Over time,
orchestras acquired symbolic roles in cities such as
The word “orchestra” was used
in the nineteenth century for many different kinds of ensembles: festival,
concert, theater, saloon, ball, hotel, and restaurant orchestras. Presenters at
the conference will be examining several varieties of orchestras, who
began them, their functions and, regarding the symphonies, who supported such
costly cultural artifacts. In turn, we hope that this conference stimulates our
colleagues to look into the beginnings and early development of hitherto untold
orchestral life in their own cities and towns. The hoped for result will be a
comprehensive history of orchestral activity, and a better understanding of
what it takes for an orchestra and its players to prosper and for its audiences
to gain the aesthetic capital that a civilized society requires.
January
17-19, 2008
The
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