This book portrays in fascinating detail the lives of composers and musicians from the American Renaissance and Gilded Age. It depicts the extraordinarily rich and varied musical life in Boston and New York societies showcasing one of America’s earliest and most distinctive art colonies known to some as the “Athens of America.” This important work investigates the musical conditions in America from the late nineteenth century through World War I and explains some of the difficulties encountered by America’s Musical Pioneers. Cultural historians, artists, and musicians will find this book especially interesting and engaging from cover to cover. A useful appendix lists where to find compositions by the composers represented, and is a valuable resource for performing musicians.

America's Musical Pioneers and the Cornish Colony

Fern K. Meyers

Common Sense Press

Beyond a Gilded Cage gives a fascinating account of Victorian life on Boston's Beacon Hill through the eyes of a progressive and courageous woman. Laura Marquand Walker paints a social history of Victorian America through a series of vignettes drawn from her world which included luminaries of the highest literary and artistic circles. Her railroad journey to California, fourteen years after the driving of the golden spike, depicts life across the nation. Her tales and adventures in the prestigious Cornish Art Colony provide a rare glimpse into the personalities of leading artists of the Gilded Age. Fern K. Meyers has turned Laura Walker’s Memories into an adventure story and good entertainment from cover to cover.

Beyond a Gilded Cage, Recollections of Laura Marquand Walker

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America's Musical Pioneers and the Cornish Colony

Beyond a Gilded Cage, Recollections of Laura Marquand Walker