European Composers on the American Tour, 1900-1914
Richard Strauss, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, and Coleridge-Taylor
Series: Eastman Studies in Music; 213;
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- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 30 June 2026
- ISBN 9781648251689
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w illus. 700
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Short description:
Explores American concert life and cultural history around 1900 through the lens of four visiting European composers.
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"Explores American concert life and cultural history around 1900 through the lens of four visiting European composers. ""America may not be the promised land of music, but it is the promised land of musicians."" Lines like these abound in the reminiscences of European musicians at the fin de si--cle. Foreign tours could be mammoth financial enterprises, and in the early decades of the twentieth century, many of Europe's most eminent composers came to the United States to conduct and perform. But these tours were about far more than the bottom line--they became studies in cultural self-fashioning and symbols of the transatlantic exchange. Matthew F. Reese's European Composers on the American Tour, 1900-1914 documents--for the first time--the concert tours of Richard Strauss (1904), Saint-Sa--ns, Scriabin, and Coleridge-Taylor (all 1906-07). It charts how these men adapted to the American scene, and the complex, variegated ways that Americans received them. Each tour illustrates different issues of race, gender, and musical aesthetics in a moment of extraordinary cultural flux. Considered together, they demonstrate how Americans, reckoning with their European heritage, treated that relationship as a way of articulating their cultural identity. Critics saw America's future in its synthesis of the best elements of the Old World. In affirming the virtues--and limitations--of European art, critics deliberately positioned American music as its eventual heir."
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"List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Steamships, Telegraphs, and Typewriters: Constructing Musical Identity in an Interconnected World Chapter 2: Lion and Lamb? Strauss, de Ahna, and the Gendered Politics of Musical ""Mastery"" Chapter 3: Artist Emeritus: Saint-Sa--ns and the Pitfalls of the Musical Fl--neur Chapter 4: The Science of Dangerous Sounds: Scriabin and the Threat of Slavic Modernism Chapter 5: ""Race Music, Race Author"": Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the 1906 Tour Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Richard Strauss, 1904 Appendix B: Camille Saint-Sa--ns, 1906 Appendix C: Alexander Scriabin, 1906-07 Appendix D: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1906 Bibliography Index"
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