Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now

[...]only in the last hundred years or so has most opera become regarded as fine art. For a little more than a century, concert bands played a large and conspicuous role in American popular culture. [...]about the Second World War, operatic excerpts comprised a large part of the concert bands'...

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Published in:Notes 2015, Vol.72 (1), p.143-146
Main Author: Guion, David M.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bands
Historical text analysis
JAZZ AND BANDS
Martin, George Whitney
Music
Music Selection
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Nonfiction
Opera
Repertoire
Wind Ensembles
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Summary:[...]only in the last hundred years or so has most opera become regarded as fine art. For a little more than a century, concert bands played a large and conspicuous role in American popular culture. [...]about the Second World War, operatic excerpts comprised a large part of the concert bands' repertoire. With popular music at one end of the cultural spectrum and the academic music of wind ensembles, an acquired taste, at the other, there remains no middle ground for viable concert bands unless conductors deliberately set out to recreate it, as some do.
ISSN:0027-4380
1534-150X
DOI:10.1353/not.2015.0110