Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940

(He doesn't seem to have discovered, for example, that George Templeton Strong was not only a diarist and brahmin ' but a composer, trained in Germany.) This deep-delving book, no expanded graduate thesis but a labor of true love, also manages to stay readable and entertaining as a tour gu...

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Published in:Opera news 2010, Vol.74 (7), p.64
Main Author: Freeman, John W
Format: Review
Language:English
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Colleges & universities
Music
Musical performances
Musical theater
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Summary:(He doesn't seem to have discovered, for example, that George Templeton Strong was not only a diarist and brahmin ' but a composer, trained in Germany.) This deep-delving book, no expanded graduate thesis but a labor of true love, also manages to stay readable and entertaining as a tour guide down a forgotten byway of the American immigrant experience, where life, at least sometimes, really was a cabaret.
ISSN:0030-3607
1938-1506