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Book 1: "Queen of the arts": birth and growth. Introduction : a tale of two cities (1893)
pt. 1: Boston and the cult of Beethoven. John Sullivan Dwight, Theodore Thomas, and the slaying of the monster concerts
Henry Higginson and the birth of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Building a hall, choosing a conductor
Composers and the Brahmin confinement
pt. 2: New York and beyond. Anton Seidl and the sacralization of opera
Symphonic rivalry and growth
Leopold Stokowski, Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and the gossip of the foyer
Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives in search of America
Coda : music and the Gilded Age
Book 2: "Great performances" : decline and fall. Introduction : the great schism (1914)
pt. 1: The culture of performance. The Big Three
More conductors
The world's greatest soloists
Opera for singers
pt. 2: Offstage participants. Serving the new audience
Composers on the sidelines
Leonard Bernstein and the classical music crisis
Postlude : post-classical music.
pt. 1: Boston and the cult of Beethoven. John Sullivan Dwight, Theodore Thomas, and the slaying of the monster concerts
Henry Higginson and the birth of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Building a hall, choosing a conductor
Composers and the Brahmin confinement
pt. 2: New York and beyond. Anton Seidl and the sacralization of opera
Symphonic rivalry and growth
Leopold Stokowski, Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and the gossip of the foyer
Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives in search of America
Coda : music and the Gilded Age
Book 2: "Great performances" : decline and fall. Introduction : the great schism (1914)
pt. 1: The culture of performance. The Big Three
More conductors
The world's greatest soloists
Opera for singers
pt. 2: Offstage participants. Serving the new audience
Composers on the sidelines
Leonard Bernstein and the classical music crisis
Postlude : post-classical music.